On Tuesday 07 July 2009 04:46:24 Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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
Sorry for the noise.. i was just thrown off by the fact that if you actually grep all the Makefiles for DESTDIR after ./configure it comes up empty. I will try to investigate a little more closely next time, before i waste anyone elses time :-/ /Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
