Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

[Karl Eichwalder]

Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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=...

Okay, but it isn't userfriendly to ask the user to use different values
for the same variable at different stages of the configuration,
compilation and installation precess.

Yes, I admit wget fulfills the Coding Standards as written; but I see
possibilities to improve it even more.

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