Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > What I do like about it is that it adds a useful feature (for some), > offers flexibility, and offers areas for greater education. It could be > argued that by inspecting the contents of DESTDIR after they run the > make install command there is additional opportunity for builders to get > familiar with what exactly is going to be installed. > > -- > JH > That's precisely what i'd hoped to say in my initial post in this thread, when i said that the use of $DESTDIR wouldn't detract from the book's educational objectives - on the contrary, it would more likely be an enhancement.
Thank you, Jeremy, for your superior eloquence. ;-) taipan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page