From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:57:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20140210135753.GA8272@jocasta.intra> References: <20140210081934.GA15977@jocasta.intra> <52F8CCFB.2030206@totakura.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCrN5-0004rb-14 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:58:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCrN0-0007O2-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:58:02 -0500 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:55363 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCrN0-0007Nb-5y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:57:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52F8CCFB.2030206@totakura.in> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Sree Harsha Totakura Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:58:35PM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: On 02/10/2014 09:19 AM, John Darrington wrote: > I think the make install target in gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR to "/" (or "/.") Setting DESTDIR will then make the install target to install files in the chroot dir (most likely to /usr/local/ or the prefix dir inside chroot) inside the chroot. But the intention is to install into a directory given by the --prefix variable to `configure'. Sree Files are installed into $DESTDIR$prefix so setting DESTDIR to / will not break this. J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.