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Re: make DESTDIR=.... install
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 11 11:47, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 11 December 2007 11:41, Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>> > Hey folks,
>> >
>> > After building cygwin from sources,
>> >
>> > make DESTDIR=.... install
>> >
>> > ... doesn't seem to work, at least not with [ ... snip! ... ]
>>
>> Sorry, that's not very specific of me is it?
>>
>> To be more precise: when I run "make DESTDIR=$objdir/install/ install" in my
>> $objdir (using an absolute path to DESTDIR; a relative path creates a bunch of
>> "./install" dirs throughout the build tree), what I actually end up with is:
>
>The winsup dir doesn't support DESTDIR. You must set prefix and
>sysconfdir as necessary.
I'll look into adding DESTDIR, though. It really should be consistent with other
"GNU" tools.
cgf