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Subject: Re: 3.0 DESTDIR
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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
Date: 24 Oct 1999 15:51:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: Clint Adams's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:30:20 -0400"
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Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes:

> Yes, DESTDIR is useful for automated package building and bootstrapping
> a chrooted environment, but not what you describe.

Can't you use "make install prefix=..." there, too?