On Wed the 05 Feb 2003 at 08 hours EST T wrote... >On Wed the 05 Feb 2003 at 09 hours EST >SN wrote... >>Hi, >> >>torsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I come across this problem occasionally with configure, >>> that libraries refuse to install. >>> >>> problem---->pangoft2 libraries will not install. >>> >>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ >>> --mandir=/usr/local/share/man \ >>> --infodir=/usr/local/share/info \ >>> --sysconfdir=/etc/local \ >>> --localstatedir=/var/local >>> >>> mkdir -p /usr/local/src/$PKG && >>> make prefix=/usr/local/src/$PKG \ >>> mandir=/usr/local/src/$PKG/share/man \ >>> infodir=/usr/local/src/$PKG/share/info \ >>> localstatedir=/var/local \ >>> sysconfdir=/etc/local \ >>> install >>> >>> You can see I'm configuring the program in the >>> system tree (/usr/local) but installing it in >>> a subtree for packaging. >> >>you should be using DESTDIR to achieve the latter. Your call to 'make >>install' is definitely wrong as it is and you shouldn't blame Pango >>for that. >> >> >>Salut, Sven >> > >The problem with DESTDIR is it installs the program configured for >/usr/local >in eg >/usr/local/packages/<package-name>/usr/local/{bin,include,lib,...} I'd >rather have/usr/local/packages/<package-name>/{bin,include,lib,...} >
In retrospect, I like DESTDIR a lot. Thanks for the tip. Torsten _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list