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Installation ickiness with gdb 4.4

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1992 02:07
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The README says:

`--destdir=DIR'
     DIR is an installation directory *path prefix*.  After you
     configure with this option, `make install' will install GDB as
     `DIR/bin/gdb', and the libraries in `DIR/lib'.  If you specify
     `--destdir=/usr/local', for example, `make install' creates
     `/usr/local/bin/gdb'.

If you try and use this, however, configure says:

Unrecognized option: "--destdir=/usr1/gnu/DIST".

and then includes:

 -datadir=MYDIR configure for installation of host dependent files into MYDIR. ["/usr/local"]

in the usage message.

This is certainly NOT the same thing.

Further, the usage message (or perhaps configure) is incorrect; the
default datadir is supposed to be /usr/local/lib, as one would intuit
from the Makefile.in's.

The usage statement does mention --prefix; which is exactly what I
want.  

This should be cleaned up in the next release.

	-mib
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