Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] What about the distributions?

[Ali A. <ALI...@au...>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Eric Bischoff wrote:

> Le Samedi 28 Octobre 2000 00:38, Ali Abdin a écrit :
> > > This will probably be autodetected, thanks to Unix rights system. A
> > > package is always built as a normal user the first time. The usual
> > > process is then to add the right arguments for buildrooting in the spec
> > > file.
> >
> > No it won't - most SPEC files do not do this!!
> 
> I suppose this is a misunderstanding. Yes they do. They need it at least to 
> pass the build root to the make files.

No - most specfiles do not specify a '--localstatedir' - so the autoconf 
uses the "default" by assuming it is the same as --prefix (i.e. usually 
/usr or /usr/local)

Regards,
Ali