On Thursday December 11 2014 13:56:52 Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Michael Dickens wrote:
> 
> > If the Makefile is hand-written, it probably does not contain a way to set 
> > DESTROOT or some other variable to direct where to install stuff outside of 
> > PREFIX
> 
> That's not necessarily so. Humans are certainly capable of writing Makefiles 
> that use the DESTDIR variable properly. If the Makefile in

Who said anything about not being able to?

> question does not do so, consider fixing the Makefile to do so, then 
> providing a patch to the developers so that they can include it in the next 
> version

The Makefiles in question already contained INSTALL_ROOT. I doubt that the 
developer would be interested in replacing that with DESTDIR...

R.
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