From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11800 invoked from network); 24 Oct 1999 14:30:35 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Oct 1999 14:30:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 3603 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 1999 14:30:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8390 Received: (qmail 3596 invoked from network); 24 Oct 1999 14:30:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:30:20 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: Bart Schaefer Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: 3.0 DESTDIR Message-ID: <19991024103020.A5395@dman.com> References: <991019052248.ZM4198@candle.brasslantern.com> <991019061342.ZM4317@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991023204554.A31639@dman.com> <991024015558.ZM1246@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024010545.A1872@dman.com> <991024062032.ZM1682@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <991024062032.ZM1682@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:20:32AM +0000 > (1) that doesn't apply to 3.0.x, because it doesn't compile any of those > strings into the binary, so you still haven't given a reason to have the > DESTDIR patch in that version; and Fair enough. I withdraw the request. > (2) that recompile is a bug in the 3.1.6 build process which I think we > ought to fix whether or not DESTDIR is also available; and Agreed. > (3) DESTDIR isn't sufficient anyway, because simply prefixing the entire > path from the root forces you to install into a precise mirror tree of > the install hierarchy. It turns out that in one of the cases where I > thought DESTDIR would be useful, it actually is not; because what I want > is to change /usr/local/* into /usr/local/stow/zsh/*, that is, insert a > new hierarchy _below_ ${prefix} rather than above. Yes, DESTDIR is useful for automated package building and bootstrapping a chrooted environment, but not what you describe. However, I'm not sure why you would want to install files into /usr/local/stow that believe their functions/modules are going to be in /usr/local.