On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:45 PM, tom fogal<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Anders Juel Jensen <[email protected]> writes: > >> It would make life a lot easier for both packagers and testers if >> the autotools based build system could be made to support DESTDIR, >> like most other autotools based packages does. > > This is the wrong forum/time to ask this question, but I've noted > similar support mentioned in other contexts here and again and never > understood the point. > > It seems to me like "./configure --prefix=/tmp/my-new-mesa-package/usr > && make && make install" would have the same effect. What does DESTDIR > accomplish that prefix does not?
The package may be built differently depending on what the final destination (controlled by --prefix) is. Among other things: - paths entered in data such as the pkg-config .pc files will be wrong - you may get an incorrect rpath encoded into the binaries (usually only happens with libtool) - the build may make different decisions if you are installing to a system directory (/usr) vs. a temporary path -- Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
