@rofl0r @ [1]
"...still it's unusual/unexpected to embed DESTDIR in LIBPATH
etc. where this could hickup is when for example hardcoded paths need
to be embedded into the resulting binary. for example, in the
netbsd-curses makefile i linked earlier, such a case would be reference
to the terminfo DB location, which is derived from PREFIX.
other possible cases might be stuff that dlopen()s its own libs using an
absolute path, or uses other data files. for such a case a contributor
would typically re-use DATAPATH oslt and put it into CPPFLAGS or write
it into a header, to find the required files. when now these paths have
DESTDIR in them too, this will not work. thus it is good practice to use
$(DESTDIR) only in install targets, and keep it out of other vars."
[1] 8e29a6061f (commitcomment-22678488)
This closes#232
AIX /bin/echo doesn’t support -n.
AIX echo and OS X /bin/echo support \c to prevent a trailing newline but linux echo (bash builtin and /bin/echo) don’t support it unless you also use the -e flag (which is not support by AIX /bin/echo or OS X sh or /bin/echo).
The BSD echo man page suggests using printf to avoid trailing newline, which is available on linux, OS X, and AIX.
