On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:04:28 +0200 josef reidinger wrote: > > This is not a "hack" and frankly it is a procedure which should be > > given in your distributions packaging guidelines or if not then > > it should be addressed on your distros Maintainers list. > > > > Emelfm2 is not the only app that does not use 'configure' but > > instead make/make install. > > And with all the builds for those apps you must define the prefix > > for chroot/nonroot builds. > > Many distros, including mine, uses a predefined marco for the > > buildroot/tmppath (all our pkgs are built as user). > Our distro use same way. Hack is that you need different variable for > build and for install (which is not common for another packages). > Purpose of DESTDIR variable is to have same variables for both make > target. Default DESTDIR is / so if you not define it, it behavior is > same as now. > So you can use (pseudocode) > set_build_variables; > make; > make install; Then that issue may be distro specific as it does not occur here with rpm. Not the entire spec but does show some of Variables, build, install,and file list. %define svn 1690 %define name emelfm2 %define version 0.6.0 %define release 1.%{svn}zae %define prefix %{_prefix} %prep %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}svn%{svn} %build %make OPTIMIZE="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" \ CFLAGS="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" \ USE_INOTIFY=1 \ USE_LATEST=1 \ PREFIX="%{_prefix}" \ WITH_THUMBS=1 \ WITH_TRACKER=1 \ WITH_CUSTOMMOUSE=1 \ WITH_HAL=1 \ EDITOR_SPELLCHECK=1 %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %make install PREFIX=%{buildroot}%{prefix} %make install_i18n PREFIX=%{buildroot}%{prefix} %files -f %{name}.lang %defattr(644,root,root,755) %doc docs/ACTIONS docs/CONFIGURATION docs/CREDITS %doc docs/HACKING docs/README docs/TODO docs/USAGE %doc docs/WARNING %defattr (-,root,root) %{_bindir}/* %{prefix}/share/pixmaps/* %{prefix}/share/applications/* %{prefix}/share/application-registry/* %{_libdir}/%{name} %{_iconsdir}/hicolor/48x48/apps/%{name}.png %{_iconsdir}/hicolor/32x32/apps/%{name}.png %{_iconsdir}/hicolor/24x24/apps/%{name}.png %{_mandir}/man1/* The build and resulting .rpm are in /home/charles/rpm and the emelfm2-0.6.0-1.1690zae.x86_64.rpm can then be installed on any compatible system. Charles -- <WildTHing> ok guys .. so whens the next commit :PP <taniwha> when they come to get me ---------------------- Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Cooker) for x86_64$ On SuperSize....http://www.eslrahc.com Registered Linux user #182463 2.6.29.3-server-1mnb AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ ----------------------