Andy, these only work if your package uses autoconf and automake.
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:48:40PM +0800, Andy Sy wrote:
> When compiling source code into a temporary directory for
> packaging, which of the following will work more often:
>
>
> make install prefix=/pkgdir/usr/local
>
Every program that follows GNU coding standards for makefiles (that
essentially means every program that uses GNU Automake for its build
process) will honor this.
> or
>
> make DESTDIR=/pkgdir install
>
DESTDIR is also required by GNU coding standards, and hence is always
created by Automake generated makefiles.
> I've encountered one package, omniORB for which DESTDIR
> worked but prefix was ignored. Would the reverse sometimes
> be true for some packages?
The two methods you've described should only fail if a package doesn't
follow the GNU makefile guidelines, usually because it doesn't use
automake, or it goes out of its way to do something highly unnatural in
a Makefile.am (which is absolutely crazy for anyone to do).
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