Le Monday 11 August 2008 01:37:52 John G. Heim, vous avez écrit : > The program I'm working on uses a configure script to build a Makefile. So > I need to change it to install the binary into /usr/bin instead of > /usr/local/bin. But the new maintainer's guied says to put $(DESTDIR) in > front of the directory names. Like: > > BIN = $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin > > But the Makefile already uses that variable name. What is the point of > using $(DESTDIR) in maintaining the Makefile?
Because you want the make install call to install the files in a temporary folder, usually $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp. Then, from this folder, you would choose which file to put in the various binary packages you may generate from the single source one. Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
