2008/6/15 Grzegorz Dąbrowski <grzegorz.dabrowski@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:39 AM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm trying something different to capture all of the installed files >> for things built using the GNU system. Here's what I did, first I got >> it to the point where I knew everything that is required to build the >> package, built it and tested it, then ran make clean. For my porting >> efforts I've been using the new Haiku /boot/common as my --prefix >> target. I make a new folder called say /boot/target, then use >> ./configure --prefix=/boot/target, then make, make install. Now I >> rename target to common and zip up /boot/common into a file called >> port-haiku-x.x.x.zip >> Then I delete this new common folder and rename the common-1 back to common. >> I'm guessing there's other ways to do this and only capture the files >> that should be included in a binary zip file. Anyone have other ideas >> on this? > > 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 > > -- > Grzegorz Dąbrowski > Cool, thanks Grzegorz, this was the kind of tip I was looking for. -scottmc