'make install' ignores --prefix for installing the man page

[SimonSapin]

Hi,

Using today’s master from git, I’m running:

./configure --prefix /home/simon/non-packages
make  # fails for some reason
make  # succeeds
make install # without sudo

make fails the first time with this output: http://nopaste.info/d3df650be4.html , but finishes without error the second time. I’m told on IRC that that issue is already reported (edit: #2641).

This issue is with make install. It ignores the prefix and tries (and fails, since I’m not root) to create /usr/local/share/man/man1. It should write to /home/simon/non-packages/share/man/man1 instead.

[SimonSapin]

I tried to trick Make with a symlink, but now it tries to write to /usr/local/bin/rustc. It appear to ignore the prefix completely.

[SimonSapin]

It worked with --prefix=foo (which is indeed how it appears in the --help message) instead of --prefix foo. My fault for not reading carefully enough, although it would be nice to have both work.

[nikomatsakis]

Seems like the bug has more to do with command-line parsing than installation. Closing the issue.

[nikomatsakis]

I was going to open a bug for support --prefix arg, except that near as I can tell --prefix=arg is the standard form and --prefix arg is not normally accepted in other configure scripts.