From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28847 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 14:21:06 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Aug 1999 14:21:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 2750 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 1999 14:19:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7546 Received: (qmail 2739 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 14:19:47 -0000 Message-Id: <9908301228.AA16041@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install In-Reply-To: "Clint Adams"'s message of "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 22:39:35 DFT." <19990820223935.A5728@dman.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:28:26 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Clint Adams wrote: > This enables use of the DESTDIR variable which greatly facilitates > the installation of zsh in an alternate location without unwanted > behavior that can result from changing $(prefix). > > e.g. make install DESTDIR=/tmp/test-chroot 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. Now I'm only 1/2 million patches behind. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy