Re: Making Packages

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 4 Oct 2006, at 21:24, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:

> Just wondering if there is an easy way to install GNUstep to a  
> different directory in order to make packages?  If I remember  
> correctly, last time I tried "make DESTDIR=/whatever install" it  
> just installed the packages to $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT instead of / 
> whatever/$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT.

Support for DESTDIR= was only added to gnustep-make in SVN about a  
week ago.  Before that special_prefix= should have done the same job.

> The reason why I want to do this is because since I test GNUstep on  
> my Slackware computer I thought I might as well create a package  
> and put it up on linuxpackages.net for others.  I'll probably be  
> building Startup 0.16 instead of all the different packages just  
> for simplicity.
>
> On that note, what's the correct place to install GNUstep?  Is it / 
> usr or /usr/lib?  Debian seems to put it on /usr/lib but GNUstep's  
> default is /usr... so which one is it?

There is no 'correct' answer to that ...
As you say, GNUstep puts itsself in /usr/GNUstep by default, so that  
is the correct location if you ignore other factors, however if your  
operating system distribution (eg Debian) has specific conventions  
that things should be put somewhere else, then that is correct for  
that distribution.
You can actually put it wherever you feel like (and have multiple  
copies in different locations if you want), but it's less confusing  
to stick to whatever convention is used on your system.  If your  
system has no special conventions it makes sense to stick to the  
default (/usr/GNUstep) location.