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Re: [sr #110212] Transform pkgdatadir using program-prefix and -suffix
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Nick Bowler |
Subject: |
Re: [sr #110212] Transform pkgdatadir using program-prefix and -suffix |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:32:06 -0400 |
On 2021-07-27, Eric Siegerman <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #4, sr #110212 (project autoconf):
>
> 0 Edit _configure.ac_: In the _AC_INIT()_ call, change the first argument
> to
> the name you want to use for the subdirectory
> 0 Run _autoconf_ (perhaps indirectly, if the package provides an
> _autogen.sh_
> script or the like)
> 0 Run _configure_ with _--program-prefix_, _--program-suffix_, and/or
> _--program-transform-name_, as desired
> 0 Once the build is finished, do a test install into a scratch location
> using
> _DESTDIR=/where/ever_, and look it over to make sure all the pathnames that
> needed to be changed, were in fact changed.
Instead of all this hackery you can just set pkgdatadir when you build the
program, surely that's easier. For example:
% make clean
% make pkgdatadir=/wherever/you/want install
This is expected to work with all build systems that follow the GNU
coding standards.
Cheers,
Nick