DJ Lucas wrote: <snip > > The disadvantage is that if you move from the DESTDIR, you have to be > aware of things like the info dir, gconf updates, .desktop or icon > additions, etc. Pretty much any update to an existing file will have to > recreated manually. In the end, this is probably much better for > learning exactly what is going on, and this is also how the big distros > do it.
That's interesting. Do you mean that DESTDIR actually affects the contents of some files when you run "make DESTDIR=/my_path install"? I always assumed, perhaps wrongly, that it merely changed the destination path for the "root" of the install process, but kept in tact the paths of --prefix and other switches that were applied during the configure. Or did I misunderstand your comment completely? It is early after all ;-) Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
