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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2002-07-15, Stepan <stepan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I checked it and it works, however if someone wants to pass different
> > exec_prefix or different bindir and so on, he must pass the same to make
> > install. DESTDIR is a general way how to install package to temporary
> > location (without knowing anything about package configuration) and I like
> > it more, I must say.
>
> Ok, I see. Your patch assumed that DESTDIR is terminated with "/". Is
> this normal behaviour?
Yes, it is taken from automake (BTW, makefile.in looks like being
generated by automake) and also follows the suggestion from GNU Coding
Style Guide.
I forgot to put line DESTDIR= in the beginning of makefile.in to have
DESTDIR set to nothing by default.
Have a nice day.
Stepan Roh