On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:30, Jared wrote:
[snip]
> I tried something like that before, where I made my root "/" and then
> made myself a tree with usr/sbin/hotwayd and etc/xinetd.d/hotwayd as
> files to be installed. Well, it ended up wiping out my symlink of /etc
> and replacing it with an actual directory, /etc/ with only one file in
> it (xinetd.d) and one file inside that. Luckily, it was unable to wipe
> out /usr because I mistakenly forgot to give it root privileges
> (difference between root and admin wasn't clear at the time). Do you
> think if I had given it root privileges that it would have installed
> *in* /etc and *in* /usr or would it have gone overboard and trashed
> /usr as well?
>
Well-behaved Unix apps are passed their final install location using
./configure --prefix (so you can have, say, ./configure
--prefix=/usr/local or /sw for example) but for installation and/or
packaging the install target is then overriden, so the installation is
done using e.g. 'make install DESTDIR=/tmp/package' . Best way is to
examine the configure and Makefile scripts, and there are tons of RPM
spec and Fink info files you can examine to see how other packagers do
things.
HTH,
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