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Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR |
Date: |
07 May 2002 11:09:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
* Miles Bader writes:
> "Federico G. Schwindt" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ok, this seemed pretty clear, and it's in your standards, but I want
>> this to be able to change final destinations by seting DESTDIR, useful for
>> cross-compiling by instance or to test snapshots in a pseudo real-world
>> installation.
> With most GNU software it's usually pretty easy to do this anyway, by
> installing in a separate pass (from building), with `make prefix=...'.
And most GNU software will become broken if you use `make prefix=...'
as it can write some things that depend on `prefix', and if you change
it to something that will be written into the binary. DESTDIR doesn't
do this.
--
Alfred M. Szmidt
- PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Nick Clifton, 2002/05/05
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Federico G. Schwindt, 2002/05/06
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/06
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Hans-Bernhard Broeker, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Paul D. Smith, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Paul D. Smith, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/08