On 01/06/2011 10:24 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Donn Washburn wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion Sean;
>>
>> It appears to be related to $(DESTDIR) in Makefile and
>> Makefile.in. It
>> is not set to /usr/bin or /usr/share/brlcad/bin
> DESTDIR isn't set for normal builds. That's a variable that lets you
> override installation paths, commonly used by package management
> systems like apt.
>
> For a regular build, the build targets should be something like $
> (DESTDIR)$(bindir) where $DESTDIR is empty. The $bindir variable
> should be near the top of the Makefile. Mine is:
>
> bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin<-yes
>
> And exec_prefix is:
>
> exec_prefix = ${prefix}<- yes
>
> and prefix is:
>
> prefix = /usr/brlcad<- no
>
> If your exec_prefix variable is simply empty, that would match the
> installation behavior you're observing. If that's the case and
> you're using GNU make, then you could actually override the variable
> with "make exec_prefix=/usr" .. or using DESTDIR in a similar manner.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
>
I give all of the variables to configure as a script so it can be redone
if needed or a new version comes out.
I took a look on the net for "DESTDIR Linux" and found a GNU site worth
viewing
" http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html "
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