Phil, On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:56:28PM +0100, Philip J. Mucci wrote: > In long: > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html > > In short: > > This is for support of Gentoo, Debian and RPM packaging suites, which > often build for a specific prefix, but stage the installation in a > secondary location. That location in DESTDIR. > > DESTDIR is never referenced in a rule...it is purely an install time > metric. > > This is very useful (and most important) for building root filesystems > for cross compilation environments. (where you want to install > in /newroot but you want prefix to be /usr) > > Does this help? > Yes. Now I can see the usage for most of these except maybe for DATADIR which is in the Makefile but not used anywhere inside pfmon.
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