Re: Installing A-A-P with a non-existent PREFIX

Scott Harrison wrote:

> > You can set $PREFIX to an empty string, but this has the meaning of
> > installing in /usr/local.  To really install in the root directory set
> > it to "/".
> > 
> > Is it a problem that install_files() always prepends $DESTDIR/$PREFIX
> > to the directory passed to it?
> 
> The only small worry I have is
> 
> PREFIX = /
> DESTDIR = /
> 
> and winding up with a system call
> 
> cp somefile ///usr/work/somewhere/.

The Python function os.path.join() is used, which deletes extra slashes.
If you do see too many slashes somewhere, let me know and I can fix it.
But I would not expect this to happen.

> I think '//' and '///' is unclean, and vaguely
> recall it not being processed well by certain
> OS platforms or software applications.

On some (old) systems //system/path was used for network access.

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