[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1621919 ] make DESTDIR=blah problem

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Bugs item #1621919, was opened at 2006-12-25 02:00
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Category: msys
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Alexis Wilke (alexis_wilke)
Assigned to: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Summary: make DESTDIR=blah problem

Initial Comment:
Hi guys,

Today I was trying to run a configure + make like under Unix and I ran in a problem with DESTDIR versus --prefix.

The steps are very simple:

  1. download a source package
  2. configure --prefix=/mingw
  3. make
  4. make DESTDIR=/home/alexis/my-tool/BUILD install-strip

The problem is that the configure script was given the full path to /mingw (i.e. F:\blah\foo\bar\mingw). Later the installation prepend the destination directory and there is the result:

  /home/alexis/my-tool/BUILDF:\blah\foo\bar\mingw

instead of what I expected:

  /home/alexis/my-tool/BUILD/mingw

I tried to change step 4. in two steps:

  4.a  export DESTBIR=BUILD
  4.b  make install-strip

and I got the same error.

The solution I have found so far is to replace the default directory path inside the configure script. This way it does not get transformed. Thus, the following:

  ac_default_prefix=/usr/local

becomes:

  ac_default_prefix=/mingw

and since MSYS does not change that variable, it works just fine.

Do you have any other solution to this problem?!

Thank you,
Alexis

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