On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:48:27AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > Fons - you don't! DESTDIR is empty by default. Hence "make install" > installs directly for a regular user who has not bothered to set it. > PREFIX is the way that a non-packaging user targets the install to > somewhere other than the default, no matter what "the web page about > DESTDIR says". DESTDIR is strictly for packagers/developers, and > merely has to be supported by the makefile, not used by a "regular > user". > > The reason for having two distinct variables is that some software > needs to know PREFIX at compile time (e.g. where to find conf files, > or private shared libraries, etc). If the packager is aiming to > install the software in /foo/bar eventually, then she needs to set > PREFIX appropriately. But they may want to use /baz/bomb as a "staging > ground" for packaging, hence DESTDIR. Again, this does not affect > "regular users", who simple set PREFIX (if anything at all).
Yes, that is and already was very clear, but: [Renato] > ... but the fact is that in Arch > for building from source in a pacman-aware (pacman is Arch's package > manager) manner, you need the DESTDIR option... infact you first > install all the files with the exact same direcotry tree as would > do 'make install' but, instead of in root, in a working directory... > i.e. you do 'make DESTDIR=/pathtotmpdir install' ... Which to me seems to mean that in Arch even users who install from source are supposed (I never wrote 'forced') to do this. Ciao, -- FA Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia รจ troppo stretta e lunga. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
