Re: coreutils and GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX

["Filip Hajny" <filip%joyent.com@localhost>]

On 30. 5. 2012, at 15:47, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Filip Hajny <filip%joyent.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
>> On 30. 5. 2012, at 15:35, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>> 
>>>> Actually, binutils use GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX for the same purpose (the default
>>>> prefix for all binaries). I can fix them - so that prefix-less symlinks 
>>>> are created
>>>> under ${PREFIX}/gnu/bin too.
>>> 
>>> Well, binutils uses different prefix: gnu-.
>>> Obviously we can move tools to gnu/bin/ but I'm not sure about default
>>> prefix in bin/.
>>> "g" or "gnu-"?
>> 
>> Doh. Somehow I have believed there has always been a default
>> for GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX, and there's not… :)
> 
> This is what differs binutils from all others. All packages except binutils
> used the default value set in mk/ files.

OK, but binutils/Makefile sets GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX?= so if there was a default, 
it didn't matter.

-F