From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18960 invoked from network); 31 Aug 1999 09:21:10 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Aug 1999 09:21:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 10047 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 1999 08:00:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7563 Received: (qmail 9994 invoked from network); 31 Aug 1999 08:00:06 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Peter Stephenson" , Subject: RE: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:21:23 +0400 Message-ID: <000e01bef381$6e0a92b0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-reply-to: <9908301228.AA16041@ibmth.df.unipi.it> > > I've applied this, but it doesn't look like it changes any of the internal > variables, particularly module_path, that need to know where to find things > (and install time is too late for that), so it's not clear to my how useful > it actually is. > The main usage (IMHO) would be for package build. E.g. with SVR4 (a.k.a. Solaris :-) package system you could build a package out of files in current directory. In this case the ability to have image of actual installation tree is really useful. /andrej