From: Adrien Beau <adrien.beau@free.fr>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DESTDIR for udev
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:30:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106746670521843@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-106735713126878@msgid-missing>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-29 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-28 16:04 [PATCH] DESTDIR for udev Olaf Hering
2003-10-29 1:52 ` Greg KH
2003-10-29 6:54 ` Olaf Hering
2003-10-29 11:56 ` Olaf Hering
2003-10-29 19:28 ` Greg KH
2003-10-29 20:03 ` Olaf Hering
2003-10-29 22:27 ` Greg KH
2003-10-29 22:30 ` Adrien Beau [this message]
2003-10-29 22:32 ` Greg KH
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