* David Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > Hi, > I am trying to do a "staged install", that is build, then install into a >location other than the intended final directory. > > This means that I want to build with prefix=/mypath, to install into >/elsewhere/mypath, and then at a later time, copy the bits into place on the tacget >machine in /mypath and (of course) have everything work :-) > > A lot of open sourcepackages support an environment variable DESTDIR, which is >set in the installation phase (to /elsewhere in my example) but which is not set >during the build phase so built in paths are still ok. Apache 1.3 allows you to set >the environment variable root=/elsewhere to achieve this effect. > > So with Apache 1.3 I can > configure --prefix=/myplace > make all > root=/elsewhere make install > and the right thing happens.
the debian apache2 packages (coming soon to a server near you!) do this: make install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/apache2 which works fine. Cheers, -Thom (afaik, this will work will all autoconfised programs)
