On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:45 PM, tom fogal<
tfogal@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anders Juel Jensen <
andersjjensen@...> writes:
>
>> It would make life a lot easier for both packagers and testers if
>> the autotools based build system could be made to support DESTDIR,
>> like most other autotools based packages does.
>
> This is the wrong forum/time to ask this question, but I've noted
> similar support mentioned in other contexts here and again and never
> understood the point.
>
> It seems to me like "./configure --prefix=/tmp/my-new-mesa-package/usr
> && make && make install" would have the same effect. What does DESTDIR
> accomplish that prefix does not?
The package may be built differently depending on what the final
destination (controlled by --prefix) is. Among other things:
- paths entered in data such as the pkg-config .pc files will be wrong
- you may get an incorrect rpath encoded into the binaries (usually
only happens with libtool)
- the build may make different decisions if you are installing to a
system directory (/usr) vs. a temporary path
--
Dan
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