[Mono-devel-list] gacutil flags revisited

[Duncan Mak]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:26 +0530, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Duncan Mak <duncan at ximian.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 12:19 +0530, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> >> As a bonus, it will help us work-around b0rked build-buddy packaging
> >> scripts that choose to use stuff like
> >> 
> >>   make install prefix=$DESTDIR/usr bindir=$DESTDIR/usr/bin
> >
> > If this is not correct, what should be the correct way to do the install
> > step?
> 
> Well, it's supposed to be:
> 
>   make DESTDIR=$DESTDIR install
> 
> I understand why build-buddy chooses to use that style: custom install
> rules often ignore DESTDIR, and it's probably more robust this way.  So,
> calling it b0rked was overstating it ;-) 

I think it's probably possible to fix Build Buddy to do make install
properly. I'll ask around.
 
-- 
Duncan Mak <duncan at ximian.com>