[Cgdb-devel] Re: cgdb 0.5.1 make DESTDIR=... doesn't work

[Bennett T. <be...@ra...>]

2005-04-03T22:46:50 Robert Rossi:
> I've never used DESTDIR before, how is this different than ./configure
> --prefix=/var/tmp/bpmbuild.20581/root ?

When creating a software package, e.g. rpm, or my own bpm, the
typical pattern is

	./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
	make
	make DESTDIR=$BPM_ROOT install

(RPM uses $RPM_ROOT). With that pattern, user executables get
installed into $DESTDIR/usr/bin, man pages in
$DESTDIR/usr/share/man, etc --- DESTDIR is prepended to whatever
dirs were chosen at ./configure time. When creating software
packages, the package-building tool makes an empty tmp dir,
populates it with make DESTDIR=... install, then packs up the files
that got installer there to make the software package.

I hope this explanation is clear.

-Bennett