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

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'.