* Mike Frysinger wrote on Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:23:42PM CET: > On Monday 26 January 2009 14:27:43 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > I did consider renaming the option to match the documentation instead, > > and am not sure which was better; typically, the user never needs to use > > this option. Have you? > > i was working with a package that doesnt use automake but does use libtool > and > was trying to figure out if i needed to tell libtool about installing > temporarily into DESTDIR rather than the real root. if libtool keys off of > DESTDIR in the env (and it seemed to), then no, i didnt need to use this > option
libtool just looks if the install dir is a prefix of the argument that was passed to -rpath at link time, and uses that as inst_prefix_dir. Cheers, Ralf
