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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: Support for DESTDIR while installing
From:       "Dan Harkless" <wget () harkless ! org>
Date:       2001-01-30 1:46:34
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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:
> > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com> writes:
> 
> >> $ make                                       # assumes regular prefix
> >> ... build finishes ...
> >> $ make install prefix=/something/different   # same as DESTDIR=...
> 
> > Okay, but it isn't userfriendly to ask the user to use different values
> > for the same variable at different stages of the configuration,
> > compilation and installation precess.
> 
> No, every package *should* support the above sequence.  It's pretty much
> the standard way of doing this, and tons of package management software
> in the class stow uses this or something like it (I don't know if stow in
> particular does, but I know that a lot of stow-like things do).

Yes, that's the way stow suggests you install autoconf-based software.  It's
definitely the rare package that doesn't support that.

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