Re: Installing files in /etc

[Ivo Timmermans]

Christian Marillat wrote:
> >>>> "YA" == Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr sysconfdir=`pwd`/tmp/etc
> 
> YA> If it's using autoconf, there's a chance that the package also lets you
> YA> specify DESTDIR to install, as in:
> 
> YA>     $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp
> 
> This is dangerous, because if a package use i18n the Makefile in po/ don't
> understand DESTDIR, and all locale aren't installed.

Which should be recorded as a bug against the gettext package.  In
fact it is, see bugs #41823 and #52571.


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Ivo Timmermans

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