Re: [PATCH] DESTDIR for udev

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:30:27PM +0100, Adrien Beau wrote:
> 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.

Ah, thanks for the explaination.  As udev isn't using automake/autoconf
(and I don't want it too, either, please don't send patches doing
that...) I had to try to remember what the defaults were :)

I've accepted the DESTDIR patch.

thanks again.

greg k-h


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