Hi,

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. In
fact, I'll need to package the whole thing, so your
first solution will do the trick.

-Dominic


 --- Davor Buvinic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On
Thursday 19 December 2002 02:06 pm, Dominic Duval
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't know if I'm missing something here, but
> I"ve
> > been unable to find how I can change the root
> > directory where everything is installed when I do
> a
> > Make install.
> >
> > Basically, I'm looking for a way to define where
> the /
> > directory is located. I need this to cross-compile
> X,
> > so I don't want to replace my native X-related
> files
> > with the cross-compiled ones.
> >
> 
> If you want to put a prefix to the installation, you
> can do:
> 
> make DESTDIR=<your_prefix> install install.man
> 
> This is the way used to make packages (at least
> RPMs, to put the build in a 
> temp directory so it don't mess your current XFree86
> installation). Then you 
> can tar the directory structure under <your_prefix>
> and move it to another 
> computer. The structure of X directories is left
> untouch (/usr/X11R6/bin, 
> /usr/X11R6/lib, ...).
> 
> Or, if you want to define another root to the
> installation (maybe to have two 
> versions of XFree86), you must define ProjectRoot in
> the build configuration 
> (I use host.def, look the INSTALL-X.org file and the
> comments in 
> xc/config/cf):
> 
> #define ProjectRoot /usr/local/X11R6
> 
> I think that the first aproach is want you want.
> 
> - Davor
> 
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