testing 'make install'

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On Tuesday 20 January 2009 11:08:40 Andy Dougherty wrote:

> 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?

It'd be nice to take advantage of shared library versioning, at least on 
platforms where the compiler and linker and dynamic loader all support it -- 
but I have no idea how to do that in a cross-platform way.  Do you think it's 
possible?

-- c