Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Dave Hill]
> > It requires a simple patch to the Makefile.in files to allow a
> > variable $(DESTDIR) to be prepended to all the install paths whilst
> > building the binary RPM.
>
> I believe the normal GNU autoconf name for this variable is $(prefix).
Mostly. DESTDIR is only prepended to get the place where the files are
to be installed. Think of it as a different installation root. Changing
$(prefix) for this won't work for most programs, as they may compile it in.
DESTDIR is usually empty, but for RPM builds (where you need an "installed"
file tree to make the .rpm file) it is set to a temporary directory. This
way your previously installed files (e.g. from your favorite distribution)
are unchanged. Installation is done with the rpm program, even on the build
machine.
Klaus
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