Re: [Exim] New Snapshot: Testers wanted

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] New Snapshot: Testers wanted
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:28:48PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> I have just updated the snapshot in

[...]

Wow.

| (2) You can specify ROOT=xxx before "make install". This has the effect of
|     prepending xxxx to all file paths, which makes it possible to install
|     Exim for testing (or other special purposes) in a private bit of file
|     system.


Is there any reason why you did not choose "DESTDIR" instead of "ROOT",
which is used by software using auto{conf/make} for this purpose?
        thanks, cu andreas