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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdebase-1.1.2pre-19990819
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-08-26 8:27:40
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Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 05:44:40PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Look at the kappfinder to see a nice way to break it. Or anything that
> > is created at configure time breaks heavily if it's no Makefile.
> > And: --with-install-root isn't there anymore.
> 
> last I checked, DESTDIR only worked when the Makefile.am's were really
> carefully made. E.g.
> 
> $INSTALL_DATA bla $(kde_datadir)/blabla
> 
> did only work if there was no additional space behind the last blabla -
> something that happens sometimes. And there was no warning or anything -
> just the RPM would be broken.
> And sometimes when you have many many INSTALL_DATA-lines, you put empty
> lines between them to group different things - what happens: the first
> empty line will stop DESTDIR being prefixed to all following
> INSTALL_DATAs.
> 
When you write install-local targets, you have to be careful of course

Greetings, Stephan

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