> -----Original Message-----
> From: oss-devel-boun...@mailman.opensound.com 
> [mailto:oss-devel-boun...@mailman.opensound.com] On Behalf Of 
> Clemens Ladisch
> Sent: 08 February, 2011 15:38
> To: Discussion mailing list for developers of OSS
> Subject: Re: [oss-devel] OSS4 for embedded targets
> 
> sven.bieb...@be.thalesgroup.com wrote:
> > I added a remote_install option that passes a directory to 
> install.sh. 
> > When the directory is not specified (as in the normal "make 
> install" 
> > or via soundon ), the install.sh falls back to the default "/".
> > 
> > This morning however, I thought of an alternative, namely 
> to specify 
> > this at configure time. This allows the procedure to be the 
> same, but 
> > requires all scripts to be adapted. OTH, specifying it at the make, 
> > allows the same oss to be installed both on host and on target, 
> > although I do not know if this is useful : on embedded targets the 
> > kernel is often different and most of the time you want explicit 
> > control, which means from the configure stage onwards different 
> > parameters passed and a separate build directory.
> > 
> > What would fit OSS best ?
> 
> While OSS doesn't officially subject itself to the GNU coding 
> standards, doing it in any other way would just confuse user 
> needlessly IMNSHO, so I'd propose to use the DESTDIR variable 
> for make:
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
> 

OK, I wasn't aware of the standard, so I named my variable TARGET_DIR, but I
will rename it.

Thanks,

Sven

> 
> Regards,
> Clemens
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