Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

[Russ Allbery]

Karl Eichwalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> $ 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.

No, every package *should* support the above sequence.  It's pretty much
the standard way of doing this, and tons of package management software
in the class stow uses this or something like it (I don't know if stow in
particular does, but I know that a lot of stow-like things do).

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>