On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:12:34 +0200 Fons Adriaensen <f...@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> 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. > I just didn't want to delve too deep into Arch's way of building from source, so I was hasty and not precise. As allready said, you really don't run these commands directly, but rather from a script which you write your own but most commonly you find on the AUR, allready written by someone else. The script runs the command I posted above and then, if you wish, you use pacman to actually install these files on the system. Renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
