Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Federico G. Schwindt]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:21:24PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Federico G. Schwindt" <address@hidden> writes:
> >   Ok, this seemed pretty clear, and it's in your standards, but I want
> > this to be able to change final destinations by seting DESTDIR, useful for
> > cross-compiling by instance or to test snapshots in a pseudo real-world
> > installation.
> 
> With most GNU software it's usually pretty easy to do this anyway, by
> installing in a separate pass (from building), with `make prefix=...'.

  Considering that is in your standards (etc/standards.info) and it's already
used by some parts, I don't see a problem.
  Or are you suggesting me that I should mail diffs to remove it completely?

  f.-