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Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR |
Date: |
07 May 2002 21:39:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
* Miles Bader writes:
> 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.
Ouch, you are absolutely correct, I really shouldn't write mails that
early in the morning. I was under the impression that `make install
prefix=..' could do evil things to the binary/libraries/etc and that
DESTDIR shouldn't do those evil things.
--
Alfred M. Szmidt
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, (continued)
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Paul D. Smith, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Paul D. Smith, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/08
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/08
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Tom Tromey, 2002/05/08
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Nick Clifton, 2002/05/07