Re: gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> If I built something to use /afs/example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local as its
> prefix and want to install in /afs/.example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local, which
> is a common thing to want to do with AFS since the former is a read-only
> path and the later is a read/write path, I can't do that with DESTDIR.

Sure you can do that with DESTDIR.

./configure --prefix=/afs/example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local
make
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/destdir
(cd /tmp/destdir/afs/example.com && tar cf - sw) | \
(cd /afs/.example.com            && tar xf -)

Bruno