Re: [PATCH] DESTDIR for udev

[Adrien Beau <adrien.beau@free.fr>]

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 20:28, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > The hotplug symlink looks bogus. DESTDIR is for packaging,
> > > not for --prefix.
>
> Are these names documented as the default somewhere in the LSB
> or something like it?  What's wrong with using prefix in the
> rpm file?

I haven't looked at udev, but generally speaking, --prefix is
used to specify where on the filesystem the software will *live*,
while DESTDIR is used to specify under which "root" directory the
files will be put during a make install.

The key difference is that the --prefix will sometimes be
compiled somewhere into the software (as an hardcoded default
path to a config file or data directory, for example) while the
DESTDIR has no influence on the software.

Typically, --prefix is specified at ./configure time, and is
either /usr or /usr/local (usual default), while DESTDIR is only
specified at make install time, and can have any value useful to
the "make install"er.

I don't know if there is any proper documentation or standard for
these features. Both come with almost every software that uses
automake/autoconf as part of its build system.

-- 
adrien.beau@free.fr - http://adrien.beau.free.fr/



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