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