Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> 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.

No.

Packages must do all building that embeds `$prefix' in a normal `make',
so that a subsequent `make install prefix=...' will not modify any
embedded paths while installing.

This behavior is _required_ by the GNU standards, whereas DESTDIR is
optional.

-Miles
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