[mythtv] qmake weirdness

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 11:22:59PM -0400, Jim Paris wrote:

> As you can see, if any prefix of the target path includes any prefix of
> the Makefile's output, then the target in the Makefile ends up as a
> relative path.

This is one reason why you should always use an absolute path for
INSTALL_ROOT, and not a relative path.

> This is clearly wrong, because it breaks the usage of $(INSTALL_ROOT),
> which I need in order to build Debian packages.

Is there any particular reason why you would not base your work on the
existing Debian packages, if there are enhancements you would like to make?

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 - mdz