bfd.h installation location

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 11, 2002, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> People who override bfd.h must have some something wrong.

You appear to be simply using different prefixes for each pair
(host,target).

The GNU Coding Standards say that files in $(prefix) should be common
for all hosts (and presumably to all targets), whereas files in
$(exec_prefix) may differ from one host to another.

Since bfd.h may differ from one host to another, it must not be
installed in $(prefix), but rather in $(exec_prefix).

You're free to keep exec_prefix = prefix, as long as you use different
prefixes for different hosts, but this should not be required, since
it's in direct conflict with the GNU Coding Standards.

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