Re: [Acl-devel] acl and attr install prefix issue

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 12:36 +0200, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 July 2011 10:18:10 Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> >> I think I know where the problem is. Other packages that are using
> >> autotools, make installation depending on DESTDIR variable (for
> >> example zlib->Makefile.in). Buildroots scripts set the value of this
> >> variable depending on whether the files should be installed in staging
> >> folder or target folder. This is not the case for attr or acl
> >> packages, cause they both don't rely on this variable. What do you
> >> think about it?
> >
> > So the bug is not about the configure script being insensitive to --prefix.
> > You just want 'make install' to respect the DESTDIR variable, right?
> 
> Yes. I just want the build infrastructure to act like the most other
> packages do.

The attr and acl packages have a DIST_ROOT variable instead of DESTDIR;
this is probably what you want.

The packages don't use the standard GNU build environment.  It would be
nice to have that fixed but so far, nobody really cared enough to
replace the existing build environment.

Andreas