Re: deploying libraries and executables from a staging area

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Noel Yap wrote on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:40:12PM CEST:
> On 9/21/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >3) For any library in (1) and (2): are they libtool libraries?  If yes,
> >please post the *.la file.  In any case (libtool libs or not), please
> >post `objdump -p libfoo.so' for them.
> 
> n/a unless I misunderstood and you want the objdump -p of all
> installed libraries.

No, I don't.

> >Can /some/read-write/dir be accessed in the form such as
> >  /some/prefix/some/read-only/dir
> >
> >? 
> 
> No.  I'll ask around to see if such a change to our filesystem can be
> made, but if not, is there an alternative to DESTDIR?

In your case (all answers no) you should be able work around it like
this:
  make install DESTDIR=/tmp/dest
  mv /tmp/dest/lib/* /some/read-write/dir/lib
  mv /tmp/dest/bin/* /some/read-write/dir/bin
  # ...

Cheers,
Ralf