Etienne Laurin wrote: > Hello, > > By modifying install to support DESTDIR I was able to effortlessly > create packages for many source distributions that do not support > DESTDIR but use install. > > This patch adds the -P and --destdir options, which, if present, > prefix their argument or the value of $DESTDIR to the destination.
But if you need to change the package to add the -P option, you might as well make it support DESTDIR? Using -P would make your package dependent on a new version of coreutils and also would miss packages that use cp, ln etc. > Please consider adding this functionality to install. Something similar was discussed recently: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00047.html cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
