Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Karl Eichwalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 'wget' doesn't support the DESTDIR feature which helps to build
> proper RPM packages and allows to install into "foreign" directories
> without affecting compiled in paths.  Let me quote from the
> 'automake' manual:

The GNU coding standards don't mention DESTDIR, so I assume it's an
Automake thing.  In Wget, you can just temporarily set `prefix':

make install prefix=/wherever

> Is somebody already working on this feature?  If not, I'll willing
> to write patches.

It makes sense only if the same result cannot be achieved through
prefix.