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Re: GNU standards: DESTDIR with symlinks
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: GNU standards: DESTDIR with symlinks |
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Tue, 27 Sep 2022 03:01:19 -0400 |
What Bruno said is spot on.
DESTDIR should under no circumstances modify anything, that is to say
if you do `make install' and `make install DESTDIR=/tmp' the two
should be identical.
So whatever symlinks created should be the same with, or without
DESTDIR -- even it it causes a "broken" situation (symlinks not
pointing right). The intent when using DESTDIR is to later re-locate
all files.