Re: gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:58:35PM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote:
     On 02/10/2014 09:19 AM, John Darrington wrote:
     > I think the make install target in gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR 
to "/" (or "/.")
     
     Setting DESTDIR will then make the install target to install files in
     the chroot dir (most likely to /usr/local/ or the prefix dir inside
     chroot) inside the chroot.  But the intention is to install into a
     directory given by the --prefix variable to `configure'.
     
     Sree

Files are installed into $DESTDIR$prefix  so setting DESTDIR to / will not 
break this.

J'



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