Re: [gpsd-dev] scons quirks

[Hal Murray]

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> People should be careful not to blur the concepts of PREFIX and DESTDIR. 

> First, DESTDIR means that one should install what would have gone in
> ${PREFIX}/bin/foo instead into ${DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}/bin/foo, but exactly as
> it would have been.  Thus one should be able to tar up in ${DESTDIR} and
> unpack in / and everything should be ok.  This is the modern norm in package
> building, so that one does not have to modify the running system to produce
> a package.   DESTDIR should only matter on install. 

Thanks.  That's a critical part of the big picture that I didn't understand.


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