Hi, > I don't see anything wrong with packagers patching the makefile, > packagers are used to using that sort of hack for DISTDIR installs.
Yes, I'm used to this as well, but that doesn't make it more correct; automake was designed to handle this transparently. DESTDIR-related problems only ever happen in custom targets. > I simply use a sed on the makefile, it's easy to maintain and it works > well. (I am the Gentoo packager). I never use sed on Makefiles because a sed never fails even if the Makefile has changed. This way, obsolete sed's can stay in the build scripts forevermore. In such cases where it's _really_ necessary to modify a Makefile, I prefer a patch because a patch fails to apply if the code changed so that the packager has a chance to update it. > A configure option would work as well, but really it's not much > different from the patching that we are doing now. I already have a patch that also fixes another issue which prevents installation into a homedirectory and just need to test it a bit, Andreas Hanke -- "Feel free" - 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX ProMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/promail-out ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
