From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PACKAGERS] Makefile: DESTDIR vs. dest
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:42:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050729164228.GP16618@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050729133015.GC21909@pasky.ji.cz>
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:30:15PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> git has $dest in its Makefile while Cogito uses $DESTDIR. I'd like to
> ask the potential users of those variables (probably mostly distribution
> package maintainers) what's easier for them and what do they prefer, as
> I would like to unify this.
DESTDIR is "standardized" by automake. Doesn't make it best,
but does make it expected by a lot of folks.
Joel
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2005-07-29 13:30 [PACKAGERS] Makefile: DESTDIR vs. dest Petr Baudis
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