Re: Re: cygwin 'make install' deleted everything!

From: Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers_at_cern.ch>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:26:48 +0100

Hi Nick,

  that is still the advised procedure. There should be no difference in building for fixed location (i.e. with prefix) or without. The problem was that we just had a bug in detecting that the build location was also the install location. This is now fixed.

Cheers, Fons.

Nick West wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Can I check one point with you:-
>

>> My first question is, how did you configure ROOT?  If you 
>> _did_not_ specify a fixed installation directory using 
>> `--prefix' or the like, you
>> should _not_ run `make install'.

>
> Well I still do precisely that i.e. build in my install directory and
> then do
>
> make install
>
> If I recall correctly, a while back now Fons said that was required to
> build the loader maps. Have things changed or did I get that wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick.
>

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