That is how the current configure-based RPM spec file works. After configuring with prefix=/usr, we do:make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install Does this make sense?
This is beyond my understanding of this option. I always do configure --prefix and make install without DESTDIR. Using scons, I always do "scons prefix=path install". Now, using scons, you can do scons prefix=path1 all and then scons prefix=path2 install During the second step, libincluded_intl.a is recompiled (because it uses a macro that uses prefix. Then, lyx is installed to path2. I would like to see other's opinion regarding a separate dest_dir option. Bo
