Re: How to specify a different path for gnuplot.gih

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

Per Persson writes:
> Hi,
> there was a small problem with the way I built gnuplot for my binary 
> installer.
> I naively install gnuplot into a dir and then copy the contents to the 
> installer. The path to gnuplot.gih gets hardwired to that install 
> location. Setting --with-gihdir= didn't help, since it then tries to 
> install gnuplot.gih at that location.
> 
> How do other people deal with this?
> Skipping the install phase and just copy the files from the built 
> sources?
> Or, is there packaging support in the makefiles that I'm missing?
 
 I don't know how your installer works, but there a little bit of support
 for package builds in the makefiles. If you install using

 make install DESTDIR=/path/to/dir ,

 the complete hierarchy gets installed under /path/to/dir and you can build
 a package from there. E.g.

$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/package
...
$ find /tmp/package
/tmp/package/usr/local/bin/gnuplot
/tmp/package/usr/local/man/man1/gnuplot.1
...