From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [PACKAGERS] Makefile: DESTDIR vs. dest Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:42:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20050729164228.GP16618@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20050729133015.GC21909@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 29 18:45:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyXxy-0004h3-Qs for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:44:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261385AbVG2Qnp (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:43:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262665AbVG2Qno (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:43:44 -0400 Received: from rgminet04.oracle.com ([148.87.122.33]:51769 "EHLO rgminet04.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261385AbVG2Qmg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:42:36 -0400 Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.10]) by rgminet04.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id j6TGgTB6010002; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:42:29 -0600 Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j6TGgTVj024138; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:42:29 -0600 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.118.41]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j6TGgT4A024130; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:42:29 -0600 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1DyXwK-0002yu-Tb; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:42:28 -0700 To: Petr Baudis Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050729133015.GC21909@pasky.ji.cz> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move." - Douglas Adams Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127