From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sree Harsha Totakura Subject: Re: gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:58:35 +0100 Message-ID: <52F8CCFB.2030206@totakura.in> References: <20140210081934.GA15977@jocasta.intra> Reply-To: sreeharsha@totakura.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCqST-0000JW-A2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:59:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCqSJ-0007EH-3u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:59:33 -0500 Received: from mail-out2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.36]:52362 helo=smtp2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCqSI-0007Da-UD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:59:23 -0500 Received: (Authenticated sender: totakura) by mail.in.tum.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A03CE24035D for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:59:07 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20140210081934.GA15977@jocasta.intra> 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: guix-devel@gnu.org 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 "/.") > Rationale: 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