On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> | (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?
The patch I was sent used ROOT... and I'm sufficiently stupid not to
think of other possibilities. :-)
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