On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Jeremy Nelson wrote:
I'm unsure how to respond to this. The IP option in the Makefile is
set by
--program-prefix, which was demanded by the Debian people, and isn't
used
for directories that I can see. I am generally unfamiliar with the
"DESTDIR"
option, although we do support --prefix and the full suite of --*dir
configure options.
Can you offer advise or guidance as to how DESTDIR should be
supported; what
configure option would set it, etc?
As others have pointed out, DESTDIR comes from autoconf (or perhaps
some of the widely used starter templates.) What no one has pointed
out yet is that it is synonymous with the IP variable epic uses now.
Speaking as someone who has built 3 different linux distributions and
countless OS packages, I think I can confidently say that while
DESTDIR is the most popular label for this feature it doesn't have
more than 70% of the "market." In fact, outside of autoconf projects
it's virtually non-existent.
If you're taking votes, my vote is to leave it as is. It's simply an
arbitrary label, and IP works as well as DESTDIR for that purpose.
While I do think DESTDIR is the better name to have chosen from the
beginning, it's hardly worth making everyone who's already packaging
epic change their packages.
-Zach
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