On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> DESTDIR is now an almost universally implemented convenience for
> managers who want to build a package for eventual use at the configured
> path locations, but install into an unrelated temporary directory to be
> tarred, zipped, rpmed or however packaged for later installation on
> other systems. DESTDIR does not affect any compiled-in paths, but is
> merely prepended for installation purposes
Aha. I see the point now. Thanks.
> which would be unnecessary if ROOT was designed to be the equivalent of
> the usual DESTDIR variable.
Yes, I think you are right. (I didn't design ROOT; somebody (I forget
who) sent it to me at some point.) If DESTDIR is becoming widespread,
then perhaps I should change to using it instead, and avoid propagating
it into the default configuration file. I've made a note of this issue.
Philip
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