Re: [Chicken-users] svn head - buid problem on debian

[felix winkelmann]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Felix,
>
> before we continue: this is not about getting chicken work for me.  I
> can easily make the destination writable for me, for a moment.  Or
> whatever.  It is about the correctness of the debian directory in svn.
> And at the same time about me not knowing what I'm doing - I'm neither a
> well trained debian maintainer nor fully understand the whole chicken
> build process.  But somehow we should be able to get it done.
>
> DESTDIR
>
> This points towards the problem.
>
> I found in debian/rules an EGGDIR, which is not used in rules.make -
> just renamed?
>
> So DESTDIR should be "/var/lib", "/var/lib/chicken" or
> "/var/lib/chicken/3" ?
>

DESTDIR is the destination directory for installation. I'm not familiar
with the debian builds, but usually, this is set to install into a particular
directory for packing a binary distribution (note that this is not the
PREFIX, which is appended to DESTDIR), by default DESTDIR is empty.


cheers,
felix