Okay, for the moment I'll try to do this DESTDIR redirecting WITHOUT a
patch to GNU install.
I said:
Whenever I find myself doing the same thing repeatedly, I try to find a
way to automate it. Clearly, training developers to use DESTDIR isn't
working; that convention is ancient history. So let's automate the
problem away, at least for a common case. That's my theory, anyway.
... I will probably just create
"bogus" versions of those programs which do the redirection, and put
them at the front of the PATH.
Mike Frysinger wrote:
i imagine if you started your own package in this regard, people would use it.
a set of utilities (just wrapper shell scripts) that respect some magic env
var and automatically provide DESTDIR-like support when people want to do
`make install` on a bad package.
env WRAPPED_DESTDIR=... PATH=~/make-install-wrappers:$PATH make install
I hope so. I'll creating that package, including a script named
"install", and see if I don't need to patch GNU install. That'll work
for many cases. (I plan to use the environment variable is REDIR_DESTDIR.)
If it works EXCEPT that too many people invoke /usr/bin/install
directly, then I'll gen up a modification of GNU install to do it, and
return to this mailing list to pitch for it.
hopefully you dont encounter too many install systems that also mung up the
PATH and dont respect DESTDIR ;)
Agree :-).
--- David A. Wheeler
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