Re: [Ganglia-developers] Small bug in lib makefile

[Luke A. K. <lu...@ma...>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Matt Massie wrote:

> i'm don't completely understand the DESTDIR problem you had.  if possible, 
> i'd like to squash that bug.

It's pretty simple.  If you set the DESTDIR when running 'make install', 
everything gets installed into the value of DESTDIR/PREFIX instead of just 
PREFIX.  For example, the binaries would be installed into, in my case, 
/sfw/install/ganglia/2.5.7/usr/local/bin.  I perform these installations 
as a normal user, specifically to make sure that the 'make install' 
doesn't modify my running system at all, because I'm making packages and I 
need to know exactly what changes.

However, the specified Makefile has a literal 'mkdir -p' in it, and it 
doesn't take into account the value of DESTDIR.  Thus, all operations take 
place in DESTDIR/PREFIX except that single 'mkdir -p' command, which 
instead takes place only in PREFIX.

Is that clear enough?

> the latest 2.5.8 snapshot can be downloaded from 
> http://matt-massie.com/ganglia/ganglia-monitor-core-2.5.8.200411241228.tar.gz
>
> 2.5.8 is unicast-enabled.

Great, I'll try that.  Apparently that fixes the solaris problems I'm 
having, also.

Thanks.

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