Re: [Devel] broken binary compatibility

[Anthony Fok]

Well, as a Debian and ThizLinux (deb/rpm) packager, I see both approaches
used by different upstream authors quite often, and we adapt to both, so we
use either
        make install prefix=/destination/directory/usr
or
        make install DESTDIR=/destination/directory

But yes, if we standardize on having DESTDIR available, that would be nice
too, as the "prefix=/destination/directory/usr" approach doesn't work for
installating files to the /etc and /var directories.  :-)

Cheers,

Anthony

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:42:09AM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > >  Also DESTDIR patch to allow make install DESTDIR=/tmp/somewhere
> > 
> > This is already available:
> > 
> >   configure --prefix=/tmp/somewhere
> No. This is not the same. DESTDIR is _only_ for installation
> in different directory than default. These (DESTDIR and prefix)
> are different things. You can have 
> configure --prefix=/blabla1/ --includedir=/otherblabla2/ \
>           --libdir=/blabla3/ and so on and these paths
> are used at compilation time, too.
> 
> With DESTDIR you only do:
> make install DESTDIR=/here/is/some/strange/location.
> 
> ps. DESTDIR is default thing in automake generated makefiles.

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