Moved INSTALL_LOCATION definition to RELEASE file for SHRLIB_SEARCH_DIRS.

configure/CONFIG_COMMON

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CHECK_RELEASE_NO =
 #-------------------------------------------------------
 # Directories
 
-INSTALL_LOCATION            = $(TOP)
+INSTALL_LOCATION            ?= $(TOP)
 TOOLS                       = $(CONFIG)/tools
 
 INSTALL_LOCATION_LIB        = $(INSTALL_LOCATION)/lib

configure/CONFIG_SITE

@@ -123,5 +123,5 @@ HOST_WARN=YES
 CROSS_WARN=YES
 
 #  Installation directory
-INSTALL_LOCATION=$(TOP)
+#Note: INSTALL_LOCATION definition moved to configure/RELEASE file
 

configure/RELEASE

@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@
 VX_DIR = /usr/local/vw/tornado202
 # Is Tornado version  >= 2.2 ?   must be either YES or NO
 TORNADO_VERSION_2_2 = NO
+
+# If you don't want to install into $(TOP) dir then 
+# define INSTALL_LOCATION with full path name here
+#INSTALL_LOCATION=/home/phoebus/JBA/install

configure/tools/convertRelease.pl

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ sub readRelease {
 	# Handle "<macro> = <path>"
 	($macro, $path) = /^\s*(\w+)\s*=\s*(.*)/;
 	if ($macro ne "") {
+		$macro="TOP" if $macro =~ /^INSTALL_LOCATION/ ;
 		if (exists $Rmacros->{$macro}) {
 			delete $Rmacros->{$macro};
 		} else {