On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 02:04 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:54:03PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: > > I can use ./setup copy --destdir to copy all hi files etc to some > > directory. > > > > But how do I register it then? > > Setting --prefix when using configure does'nt seem to adjust the > > register.sh > > using --gen-script I just can't add --destdir. > > > > What am I missing? > > The docs a bit terse on this point, but copy --destdir isn't intended > for registering on the same machine. It's for building binary packages, > where you want to build an image of part of the root filesystem of the > target machine, but place it inside a subdirectory on the build machine. > The idea is to tar up that subtree, ship it to the target machine, unpack > it there at the root and run register.sh. The register.sh script is > supposed to be ignorant of the destdir.
Ah yes, quite right. The --destdir is like automake's "make install DESTDIR=$TMP/blah" feature. But using configure --prefix should change what register --gen-script produces, so if that's not happening then it's a bug I think. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
