From: "Mark Shinwell" <mshinwell@janestreet.com>
To: Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [newbie] miscellaneous on installation and web site
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:28:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100301132828.GB26002@janestreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hpw9om6.fsf@rapitore.luna>
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:07:45PM +0100, Marco Maggi wrote:
> I think I successfully compiled ocaml-3.11.2 on my
> i686-pc-linux-gnu, but there seems to be no way to install
> the package in a temporary location via the Linux de facto
> standard DESTDIR environment variable; is there a way to do
> it? (I am used to build custom packages.)
If I understand correctly, in autoconf-style setups, the contents of
the DESTDIR variable are prepended to the configured prefix to obtain the
paths used for installation. Thus you might install to /tmp/usr/bin/ocamlopt
even though the compiler is configured for /usr.
Unfortunately I don't believe the Caml build system supports such a feature.
One possible way of doing it might be to run "make install" inside a chroot,
but you would likely need a lot of additional tools present inside the chroot
for that to work.
As another poster has said, it's probably best to use the distribution
packages if possible, or else just directly write into the installation
location (using ./configure -prefix /path/to/install/dir).
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 13:07 Marco Maggi
2010-03-01 13:12 ` [Caml-list] " Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-03-01 13:13 ` David Allsopp
2010-03-01 19:32 ` Marco Maggi
2010-03-01 19:37 ` Marco Maggi
2010-03-01 21:31 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-01 13:28 ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2010-03-01 13:36 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-01 14:44 ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2010-03-02 6:04 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-03-02 14:02 ` Ashish Agarwal
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