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Re: PATCH: Cygwin 1.7 build system, reason: not all Makefiles honor installation into DESTDIR
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:06:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Cygwin 1.7 build system, reason: not all Makefiles honor installation into DESTDIR
- References: <4A8C3BFE.1030905@sipxx.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:53:02PM -0400, cygwin at sipxx.com wrote:
>When building the cygwin1.dll and associated pieces, it is desirable to
>use the proper runtime --prefix parameters to 'configure'. After
>building the tree, one might want to install it into a different base
>directory than 'prefix' using, e.g., 'make install
>DESTDIR=/my/own/dest', rather than installing into the running system.
>Unfortunately as it stands, the build system will install only a portion
>of the code into 'DESTDIR/prefix', and another portion simply into 'prefix'.
>
>The attached patch corrects the relevant Makefiles to honor the DESTDIR
>variable.
>
>diff -ru orig/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in src/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in
>--- orig/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in 2009-07-27 16:27:09.000000000 -0400
>+++ src/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in 2009-08-18 21:56:33.968750000 -0400
Thanks for the patch but these are all mingw-related and are under the
control of the MinGW team. Please see:
http://mingw.org/wiki/SubmitPatches
for how to send patches there.
cgf
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