From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Panu Matilainen Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add hierarchical support to make install Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:29:29 +0300 Message-ID: <5600F549.20000@redhat.com> References: <1442608390-12537-1-git-send-email-mario.alfredo.c.arevalo@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mario Carrillo , dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7B88D93 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:29:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1442608390-12537-1-git-send-email-mario.alfredo.c.arevalo@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 09/18/2015 11:33 PM, Mario Carrillo wrote: > DPDK package lacks of a mechanism to install libraries, headers > applications and kernel modules to a file system tree. > > This patch set allows to install files according to the next > proposal: > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html > > By adding a parameter H=1 (hierarchy-file) to makefile system, it is > possible to do the next steps > > make config T=TARGET > make > make install H=1 > > and files will be installed on the proper directory. Also you can use > the DESTDIR variable. Thanks for working on this! My 5c is that I'd rather see "make install" do the right thing (as in, behave like a normal OSS project) by default instead of requiring some obscure additional parameter (which almost nobody will then find) to activate it. - Panu -