DESTDIR support for make install
Daniel Sabo
sorry at nospam.com
Thu Jan 31 16:10:26 CST 2002
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:09:28 -0800, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at redhat.de> writes:
>
>> wine currently doesn't support the DESTDIR flag commonly used by
>> packagers. The patch I've attached fixes this.
>
> Could you explain this a bit more? Why can't you use the existing
> $prefix to do the same thing?
>
>
$prefix changes the code, e.g. winelauncher sets it's directories based on
$prefix. DESTDIR puts the files somewhere esle but writes the code like it
was going in $prefix.
So you could have $prefix=/usr and DESTDIR=/tmp/winepackage
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