Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Karl Eichwalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > 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:

Only if you haven't run `make' before.  With Wget, it's perfectly safe
to say:

$ make                                       # assumes regular prefix
... build finishes ...
$ make install prefix=/something/different   # same as DESTDIR=...