Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden (Miles Bader) writes:

  mb> However, as things stand, one can't rely on it being implemented,
  mb> and so must be prepared to do use prefix if necessary.

Yes; I typically run "make -n DESTDIR=/whatever" and do a quick glance
to make sure things appear to be going in the right place.  If not, I
rerun with "make prefix=/whatever/usr/local".  Whenever I do the latter
I'm always nervous, though :-/.

I agree with Tom; it's silly that DESTDIR is optional.  It should be
required.

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