On 23 August 2010 05:14, Josh Wilcox <wilco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using gnu stow with the dwm source. > > I noticed that, in the Makefile, the variable DESTDIR is incorporated into > path names before the variable PREFIX. I think that in most use-cases > DESTDIR is an empty variable and this does not matter. > > For my installation I need dwm to install to /usr/local/stow/dwm, but I > want the compilation step to use the default /usr/local prefix. > > If I change the order of DESTDIR and PREFIX in the Makefile install and > uninstall rules and then invoke: > > `make DESTDIR=/stow/dwm install' > > for the install step (prior to stowing) things work as I expect/desire. > > I'm a bit of a novice so I'm concerned that this change may have > unforeseen consequences, which is what led to this post. > > Thanks in advance for any comments, and thanks to this community for a > truly wonderful window manager.
In my understanding DESTDIR is a prefix, so in your case a manual copy would be mandatory. Cheers, Anselm
