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From: Paul Smith <psmith@netezza.com>
Subject: Another minor build nit...
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:16:22 -0500
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I notice that you have defined an INSTALLROOT make variable, which is
very handy.  Just a comment that all the autotools and lots of other
F/OSS build systems have settled on DESTDIR as the name of this variable
(it does the same thing INSTALLROOT does).

Adding something simple like:

   INSTALLROOT = $(DESTDIR)

to Makefile.rules or similar could allow for both uses, which would make
integrating autofs with automated build systems that have built-in
support for autotools-style configure/build/install systems.

Cheers!

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