[Github-comments] [geany-plugins] Extend mingw support (#374)

[Colomban Wendling]

> prefix=./ is a nice idea. However we need to set prefix to this, I tried to AC_SUBST prefix in configure.ac, not sure whether this will work. Though this will cause new problems because `make install` will then install the files into CWD, I guess. Using `DESTDIR` might workaround this but still I guess installing into CWD might be surprising.
Anyway, I'm just building Geany+G-P with prefix=./ to see whether it works at all.

I'm afraid using any relative directory will create mass confusion and problems, and that Autotools will refuse it anyway.  I guess the "right" solution is `--prefix=/` combined with `DESTDIR=/where/to/install`.
Installing in relative directories will be problematic from different Makefiles, as it'll be relative from different locations.

> But currently my main focus is to get it all running at all. We are only two weeks from the release date and we don't have a working Geany, G-P, GTK bundle nor any installers yet. As usual, nobody started working on this stuff in time, including me :(.
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> Though I'm optimistic we've manage the release: the bundle scripts (for Geany and G-P) are pretty much ready, the installers hopefully need only small adjustments. Currently it is mostly Autotools which eat my time :(.

Yeah… that's the reason why I didn't merge the "remove Waf" for Geany yet, because I didn't actually get anything on the way for me to have a working Autotools Windows setup, and that I didn't feel like you guys were happy enough with it to just never use it again.  So I'd rather have Waf one more cycle than not being able to make the release… although it's also a bad idea as with this way of thinking it won't go forward.  So well, both are bad :]

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