Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

2001-01-20 Thread Karl Eichwalder 

Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Only if you haven't run `make' before.  With Wget, it's perfectly safe
 to say:
 
 $ make   # assumes regular prefix
 ... build finishes ...
 $ make install prefix=/something/different   # same as DESTDIR=...

Okay, but it isn't userfriendly to ask the user to use different values
for the same variable at different stages of the configuration,
compilation and installation precess.

Yes, I admit wget fulfills the Coding Standards as written; but I see
possibilities to improve it even more.

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Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

2001-01-20 Thread Hrvoje Niksic 

Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  The GNU coding standards don't mention DESTDIR, so I assume it's an
  Automake thing.  In Wget, you can just temporarily set `prefix':
 
 In my copy of the Standards they do.  See the node `Command
 Variables'.  My copy was last updated `March 13, 1998'.  I'm sure
 there are newer copies around.  Was this text deleted?  I'd be
 suprised.

I was looking at an ancient (1996) copy of the Standards.  Sorry.

  It makes sense only if the same result cannot be achieved through
  prefix.
 
 I used to agree, but I got a lot of requests for this feature.  So
 finally I implemented it.
 
 I generally recommend that people support both mechanisms.  It isn't
 very hard.

OK.  Karl, your patches are welcome.