[haiku-development] Re: Compiling autotools

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:48:01 +0200

On 2008-04-07 at 20:45:20 [+0200], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> You do know most (not all) autoconf based apps can be installed with
> DESTDIR:
> DESTDIR=/somewhere make install
> 
> it will prepend /somewhere to the paths when copying but install as if
> it wasn't here.
> 
> That way you can just zip up the folders.

Nice, I really didn't know that. Fortunately not all packages are auto 
tools based though, so I didn't write my tool unnecessarily. :-)

CU, Ingo

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