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Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR |
Date: |
07 May 2002 21:41:06 +0900 |
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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- PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Nick Clifton, 2002/05/05
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Federico G. Schwindt, 2002/05/06
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Miles Bader, 2002/05/06
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR, Hans-Bernhard Broeker, 2002/05/07
- Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR,
Miles Bader <=
- 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