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Re: Suggestion: --PACKAGEROOT option for MAKE

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:42:24 +0200
Subject: Re: Suggestion: --PACKAGEROOT option for MAKE
References: <1060815165.23824.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com><20030814033640.363239d9.matt@eisgr.com>

Matthew Carpenter <matt@eisgr.com> writes:

> Would it be possible to include something like a "--PACKAGEMAKE" option for the MAKE command?  This would be used during a "make install" operation and would treat the accompanying directory as the root directory, allowing packagers (like RPM) a simple way to cleanly build packages.
>
> make --PACKAGEROOT=/var/tmp/BuildRoot/ install

Use make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/BuildRoot install

DESTDIR is the GNU way to do this and already implemented in binutils.

If you want a make change for this, ask on the make lists,

Andreas
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