On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I built my first test package a short time ago and all seemed to go well. I > have a question about how to solve some location dependencies that exist in a > few packages that I plan to create. > > When I built my test package I specified to the 'configure' script the > '--prefix' option was inside my debian directory. This worked fine for this > package. My question is how do I handle it if the package uses this location > to find libraries and config files at runtime. > > For instance if I specify --prefix=debian/tmp the package will not find it's > needed files at runtime since this directory only exists when I am creating my > package.
./configure --prefix=/usr make make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp or make install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr
