Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >> The GNU coding standards don't mention DESTDIR, so I assume it's an
> >> Automake thing.  In Wget, you can just temporarily set `prefix':
> 
> In my copy of the Standards they do.  See the node `Command
> Variables'.  My copy was last updated `March 13, 1998'.  I'm sure
> there are newer copies around.  Was this text deleted?  I'd be
> suprised.

I was looking at an ancient (1996) copy of the Standards.  Sorry.

> >> It makes sense only if the same result cannot be achieved through
> >> prefix.
> 
> I used to agree, but I got a lot of requests for this feature.  So
> finally I implemented it.
> 
> I generally recommend that people support both mechanisms.  It isn't
> very hard.

OK.  Karl, your patches are welcome.