Re: gettext

[Bob Proulx]

> DESTDIR is prepended to the runtime path.  It can't be an arbitrarily
> different path.
> 
> If I built something to use /afs/example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local as its
> prefix and want to install in /afs/.example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local, which
> is a common thing to want to do with AFS since the former is a read-only
> path and the later is a read/write path, I can't do that with DESTDIR.

Can you give a concrete example of a package for which this does not
work?

I use DESTDIR whenever it is available to build rpm packages.  It
works for me for the packages that have a newer automake and support
DESTDIR.  The older automakes did not support DESTDIR and therefore
with older packages I do have to use prefix.  Also, some individuals
have specific package Makefiles which do not have support for
DESTDIR in hooks and other hacks even though they use automake and
most of it works.

As a concrete example of it working, get the GNU fileutils.  Then do
this.

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
  mkdir -p /var/tmp/fileutils-image
  make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/fileutils-image install

If I did the cutting and pasting right it should illustrate it
working.

Bob