On 11/28/05, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, just to throw a bone in the mix, :-) there is no need to use > DESTDIR nowadays for a glibc upgrade as the libs are installed to a temp > file and then pivoted into the new location safely. In fact, glibc does > not recomend DESTDIR at all. 'install_root' is the alternate > installation prefix nowadays. I didn't look at the makefiles to see if > DESTDIR is still supported.
DESTDIR is just the name I came up with since it is the var that is most frequently used. The proper name for this sort of package management would be fake root. Of course the variable for fake root is different for different pacakges. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
