> > I think what you'll have to do is configure mutt with --prefix set to
> > the actual path you will eventually install to. Then, you'll have to
> > recreate the actions that 'make install' would have performed ('make -n
> > install' would probably be helpful here), using your 'cscp' program.
Telling a package's installation script to install stuff in a location
different from where it will eventually be installed is a standard
problem: all Debian packages are built this way, I think. So you
almost certainly don't have to study the output of make -n install and
do your own program. In the case of mutt, I think what you have to do
is something like:
$ ./configure --prefix=/final/location
$ make
$ make DESTDIR=/temporary/location install
This is from glancing at the Makefile; I haven't tried it. If it
doesn't work you could look at Debian's source package diff; the same
problem will have been solved there.
By the way, can anyone say if this use of DESTDIR is reasonably
standard? It would be nice of all/most packages had the same way of
doing this ...
Edmund
