On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:03 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > This:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=`cd foo; pwd -W` ...
> > make
> > make prefix=/tmp/bar install
> >
> > just works anyway, provided you don't do anything insane with the
> > other paths which should depend on `prefix', and provided the `make
> > install' with an altered `prefix' doesn't force a rebuild, (which
> > is forbidden by the GNU Coding Standards).
>
> But "you" == "the maintainers of package foo" -- over whom "I" as a
> package-porter have no control.
True, but nonetheless, it should just work anyway; if it doesn't, the
package is broken, because until as recently as about 12 months ago,
that was the mechanism stipulated by GCS.
> If the package uses automake, then I *know* that DESTDIR works --
> everywhere but on native windows.
Maybe; maybe not. If it has been updated with a recent automake, ok;
with an older version, it isn't guaranteed.
> I don't know if the foo-maintainers are idiots with regards to
> $(prefix) -- at least, not without doing a lot more research on 'foo'.
Again, true. I would just try it anyway, but I have the protection of
no access to the default locations, when I use a `prefix=$HOME/bar' to
relocate as a normal user, so I won't add rubbish in unexpected places
within my Linux file system. That said, I haven't yet found anything
which hasn't just done the right thing, but I'm sure there are examples
somewhere.
Regards,
Keith.
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