[beports] Re: making binary zips

Hello,

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 07:54 +0200, Grzegorz Dąbrowski wrote:
> This is very bad idea. Autotools supports DESTDIR variable. You should
> build package as usual and install files to different directory, e.g.:
> make install DESTDIR=~/mytmproot
> and then zip all from $DESTDIR

I am not sure about this, but I think this might not work for all
software packages. IIRC, some software depends on the package being
installed to the directory specified with --prefix, as it will look
there for data files for example.

Hopefully someone with more experience can comment on this.

Regards,
Brecht


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