On 19/10/05 5:19 pm, "Darcy Buskermolen" <darcy at wavefire.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 08:45, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> It has been observed that the --prefix option in ./configure (which puts
>> the value in $PREFIX) isn't actually referred to anywhere.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this maybe means that it ought to be dropped?  Or
>> documented as being useless?
>> 
>> Certainly NOT a 1.1.x matter; if there's something to fix, it ought to
>> be done in HEAD...
>> 
>> At any rate, if it's intentionally vestigal, then, like the appendix, we
>> should probably keep it.  But if it is truly irrelevant, it otta get
>> dropped so that people don't get confused as to what it's there for...
> 
> I think PREFIX is created by autoconf itself, I'm not sure if we can remove
> it.

Yes, I believe it is. We use it all the time in pgAdmin, yet we haven't
written any code to support it.

Regards, Dave