Original bug ID: 1311
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: not a bug
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Nils Lichtenfeld
Version: 3.05
OS: Eis 1.0 (linux)
Submission from: b070052.adsl.hansenet.de (62.109.70.52)

Hi there!

After compile of ocaml-3.05 I modified the Makefile before the make install. I
modified the PREFIX-var to have everything installed in its own directory so I
can nicely archiv the compiled files with the right directorystructure included.
This worked fine for some time, until make install entered the
camlp4-directory.
camlp4/config/Makefile is redefining the PREFIX-var, BINDIR-var, LIBDIR-var and
MANDIR-var to the defaultvalues.
This looks like someone has forgotten them, since it doesn't make much sense to
me, to have to define them in more then one place.

Additionaly let me formulate a wish, concerning make install also:
It would be nice, if the install-root could be defined when issuing the make
install, like it can be done with the compilation of glibc.
make install_root=/tmp/ocaml install
This would install everything into this directory as if it where the root-dir.
So a /tmp/ocaml/usr/local/... directorystructure would be created.
That would make the whole thing a lot more comfortable.

Thank you.
Greetings, Nils