Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of InstallDetails

Timestamp:

2009-06-10T18:26:36Z (15 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

mention that make install PREFIX=/usr/local is broken

InstallDetails

@@ -124 +124 @@
 The "{{{make install}}}" target is a wrapper around "{{{setup.py install}}}"
 that uses {{{--single-version-externally-managed}}} to bypass the extra
-checking that setuptools does. This allows "{{{make install}}}" and 
-"{{{make install PREFIX=/usr/local}}}" to work the same way as traditional unix
+checking that setuptools does. This allows "{{{make install}}}"  to work the same way as traditional unix
 software (via GNU autoconf, etc).
+
+("{{{make install PREFIX=/usr/local}}}" does not currently work -- see #703.)
 
 TODO: There should be some way to use "{{{setup.py easy_install}}}" to install
@@ -166 +167 @@
 packages for several distributions. See the DownloadDebianPackages page for
 details.
-