Re: Suspicious path issues in Makefiles ;-)

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Matthias Kilian writes:

>  # teTeX-2.0.x compatibility.
>  local-install:
> -     -$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(local_lilypond_datadir)/dvips
> -     (cd $(DESTDIR)$(local_lilypond_datadir)/dvips && ln -sf ../fonts/map .)
> +     -$(INSTALL) -d $(local_lilypond_datadir)/dvips
> +     (cd $(local_lilypond_datadir)/dvips && ln -sf ../fonts/map .)

I don't get this.  Why do you need it?  DESTDIR is empty unless you
set it explicitely, and is used to build binary packages doing:

    make install DESTDIR=/tmp/binary-package-root/

    tar -czf lily.tar.gz -C /tmp/binary-package-root/ .

Otherwise, they are sane ;-)
Jan.

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