Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

* Miles Bader writes:
> address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
>> 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.

> No.

> Packages must do all building that embeds `$prefix' in a normal `make',
> so that a subsequent `make install prefix=...' will not modify any
> embedded paths while installing.

> This behavior is _required_ by the GNU standards, whereas DESTDIR is
> optional.

Ouch, you are absolutely correct, I really shouldn't write mails that
early in the morning.  I was under the impression that `make install
prefix=..' could do evil things to the binary/libraries/etc and that
DESTDIR shouldn't do those evil things.

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt