Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

* Miles Bader writes:
> "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=...'.

And most GNU software will become broken if you use `make prefix=...'
as it can write some things that depend on `prefix', and if you change
it to something that will be written into the binary. DESTDIR doesn't
do this.

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt