Am Freitag 19 Juni 2009 14:22:17 schrieb Ludovic Rousseau:
> Hello,
>
> The SCA Makefile [1] uses "make install prefix=foobar" when installing
> a software. I think the syntax is not correct and should be "make
> install DESTDIR=foobar" to install the software in foobar directory
> instead of the default /

make install prefix=foo
was used quite often when makefiles had support for prefix, but not
for DESTDIR. if all makefiles support DESTDIR properly, that would
nicer. but I would not go as far as calling the prefix= way incorrect.

> Installing in / (/Library/OpenSC/ in fact) fails unless when running as
> root.

well,maybe some directories don't have the right permissions? I always
create a new directory on my systems, chown it to my user, install into
that directory tree and then run a recursive chown to switch all files
back to root:root after installation (and also use chmod to remove all
group write and other write permissions).

but some people still simply use "sudo make install" and I guess it works
fine for them. 

Regards, Andreas
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