testing 'make install'

[Andy Dougherty]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Allison Randal wrote:

> While you're running your usual platform tests in preparation for 
> tomorrow's release, if you're on a *nix-related platform, please also 
> run 'make install' (after running the tests). Run the tests again and 
> report if you encounter any failures that appear after the install.

I don't see anything in here about supporting different versions.  Any 
idea how that's going to work?  For stand-alone installations, of course, 
different versions can be installed completely separately, something like 
--prefix=/opt/parrot-0.8.2 (though that really needs my previous rpath 
patch to be useful) but for the various Linux distributions that may 
someday want to have both (say) parrot-1.0 and parrot-1.5 simultaneously 
installed under /usr, what's the plan?

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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu