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Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble


From: R.I.P. Deaddog
Subject: Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 04:00:08 +0800

On 2003-07-06(Sun) 11:08:58 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> There is a "catch-22" with this approach in that adding
> -L$inst_prefix_dir to the front of the linker search path may cause
> the wrong dependency libraries to be used, which is just as bad as
> picking up the wrong target library.  The approach is reasonably safe
> for a DESTDIR install since one may assume that the existing libraries
> in $inst_prefix_dir are related to the current build, but is dangerous
> for a normal user install.

Hi bob,

I would disagree quite _strongly_ for this, since DESTDIR install is not
expected to be used for normal user install; if user wants to install
stuff into some private area (say under $HOME), they would use configure
--prefix=/some/other/path, and install software into other paths
directly, without staging install. Isn't staging install intended for
packaging only?

For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because
of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can
be sorted out, once and for all.

Abel


> Although special tweaks may be applied for a DESTDIR install, the
> library paths should be as the user specified for a normal install.
> 
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
> address@hidden
> http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
> 

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