Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/22/05 01:29 CST: > To me, this is the same as installing in /home/buildusername/packagename
I was very unclear here. What I meant was, using DESTDIR is just the same as using --prefix=/someprivatedirwhereIhavepermissions This way there is never an issue of something important being overwritten because the unprivileged user is issuing the command. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 01:36:00 up 142 days, 1:09, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.25, 0.37 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
