Issue 9674: make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the

S. M. Garver,Spring 1998 Not able to Install Ruby+Devkit 2.6.5-1 (*64) on Windows Hello Rubyists - I read Paolo Perrotta's Metaprogramming Ruby 2 a few years ago and it instantly became my favorite Ruby book. After being away from Ruby for awhile now (PHP job), I've begun re-reading this book and taking notes on some of the chapters. Autotools: a tutorial Diverted installation with DESTDIR I By default, make installinstalls to the directories given in --prefixand related options. I In some situations, it is useful to divert the installation to another directory I Cross-compilation, where the build machine is not the machine where applications will be executed.

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DESTDIR, if set by the user, determines the complete alternative environment, usually a jail or an installed system mounted somewhere other than /. A port will actually install into DESTDIR/PREFIX , and register with the package database in DESTDIR/var/db/pkg . Unfortunately, although a good bunch of program authors stick to the 3-step build cycle of "./configure; make; make install", this is not always the case, and things can get real ugly if you have to apply patches to make everything work at all. Rule of thumb: If you cannot get the program to compile from the source tarball, and make it install fakedestdir. fakedestdir was written to ease packaging software, whose makefiles don't support DESTDIR or any equivalent feature. While such packages should be fixed, it's sometimes not worth the effort or there simply isn't time to do it. fakedestdir is worth trying in this kind of desperate situations. Nov 02, 2007 · Make DESTDIR=../builds install doesn't work: binarybob0001: Linux - Software: 1: 10-29-2007 02:01 AM: Can we discover if DESTDIR is supported before running make? piete: Slackware: 5: 05-19-2006 03:09 PM: Is it possible to add a "DESTDIR" variable in makefiles that don't have it ? nasty_daemon: Programming: 2: 11-25-2005 01:24 PM: make

231334 – 12-ALPHA's make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt/current

When "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/xxx" finishes you're ready for step 3 above. This is a popular method to collect installed files. The downside of this approach is that not all packages supports the DESTDIR method, and some that claim they do, sometimes behave weirdly if you install them using DESTDIR. make DESTDIR=/tmp/stage install DESTDIR should be supported only in the install* and uninstall* targets, as those are the only targets where it is useful. If your installation step would normally install /usr/local/bin/foo and /usr/local/lib/libfoo.a , then an installation invoked as in the example above would install /tmp/stage/usr/local/bin make install DESTDIR=*** Number 2 is for installing to a temporary directory which is not where the package will be run from. For example this is used when building deb packages. DESTDIR¶. On UNIX one can use the DESTDIR mechanism in order to relocate the whole installation. DESTDIR means DESTination DIRectory. It is commonly used by makefile users in order to install software at non-default location. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.