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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


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