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Re: DESTDIR vs `make install exec_prefix='


From: Russ Allbery
Subject: Re: DESTDIR vs `make install exec_prefix='
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:50:24 -0700
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> [ dropping bug-coreutils ]

Dropping down to just the automake list.

> [1] I'm asking because Automake 1.11 will reliably not install files if
> their respective installation directory is empty.  This is not yet
> functional in Automake 1.10.2.  The test for emptiness in 1.11 will not
> consider $(DESTDIR) of course, only $(bindir) etc.

I must have misunderstood this, since it sounds like it would potentially
break any system where each binary package is installed into a separate
tree.  For example, stow packages are routinely installed with:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
    make
    make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/package-version

DESTDIR cannot easily be used here because the stow layout should have
simple bin, etc, lib, etc. directories directly under that directory, not
with an extra /usr/local in the way.

-- 
Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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