Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - "make install" is called with prefix=debian/tmp/..., this is usually > wrong
Well, some packages screw things up of course, but in a package following the GNU coding standards (whence "prefix" comes) the Makefile is supposed to separate install-time actions from compile-time actions: `prefix' .... Running `make install' with a different value of `prefix' from the one used to build the program should _not_ recompile the program. So `configure --prefix=foo; make; make install prefix=bar' is still the recommended way to install to an alternate root. Even very recent versions of the GNU coding standards do not mandate DESTDIR support, though they mention it. Of course who knows what coding standards lilypond ascribes to... -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]