Re: [PATCH] Fix grub-install to use prefix for modules dir

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:46:12 -0400
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 10:51 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > I fixed ``grub-install`` so it can function when installed
> > to a prefix other than ``/usr/local``.  This simply meant adding
> > 
> >   --directory="${pkglibdir}
> > 
> > to the command line arguments for grub_mkimage.
> 
> The default is GRUB_LIBDIR, which is set to pkglibdir at the compile
> time.  Your patch would have no effect if anything is compiled and
> installed properly.
> 
> Maybe you are trying to change prefix during "make install"?  That's
> not the best approach.  DESTDIR should be used to install to a
> temporary location.
> 
> Or maybe you have some other scenario in mind?

I'm not sure.  All I know is that I did 
  ./configure --prefix=/home/cdb/bin/grub && make && make install,
then I tried to do /home/cdb/bin/grub/bin/grub-install /media/sdc1 and
grub-mkimage was getting called with /usr/local/lib/something.  Since I
specified --prefix to configure, I expect grub never ever to refer
to /usr/local.  This patch fixed my problem.

Colin