Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
I'm sorry. It looks to me as if it should be added at soem time. The
automake manual points to the make manual -- but the make manual doesn't
mention it either. Richard, will you please add it to the documents?
> It makes sense only if the same result cannot be achieved through
> prefix.
Often it works the same but it's subtly different. If you say:
make install prefix=/var/tmp/host2/usr
you'll see that /var/tmp/host2/usr is hardcoded into the binary:
ke@tux:~/Projects/wget/wget> strings src/wget | grep /etc/wgetrc
/var/tmp/host2/usr/etc/wgetrc
What the user most probably wants is:
make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/host2 prefix=/usr install
I hope you can see what I want to say.
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