On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 08:18:26AM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt writes:
>
> > However I suspect you should not be doing "make prefix=...";
> > you should make without overriding prefix, and just override it
> > during "make install".
>
> This is what I'm doing, actually; after running 'make' normally to
> build the package, I run (from debian/rules, i haven't modifed it yet)
>
> # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
> $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr
>
> > prefix can affect the program at runtime too. You don't want to hardcode
> > the temporary location into any executables.
>
> I don't think this will cause problems with the binary, since $prefix
> is not changed during the first run of make, I get
> -DICONDIR=\"/usr/share/icons\" and so on when calling gcc. the
That should be fine.
> 'install' rule just includes making directories, copying files, etc.
> Am I correct? for now, I'll patch Makefile.in to use '${prefix}'
> instead of '@prefix@'.
That sounds like the correct fix.
Hamish
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