Support DESTDIR in Makefile
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pbzip2 |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Yavor Nikolov | ||
Bug Description
Consider supporting DESTDIR in your Makefile. Unlike PREFIX which specifies where the software will ultimately end up being installed, DESTDIR indicates a root directory into which the software will be temporarily installed before an external force will move its contents to /. Package management systems like MacPorts, for example, use DESTDIR to gather all the files installed by a package in one place, to inventory them and create an archive of them, before installing them in the final location; this enables the package manager to know what files are installed by a package, so that the package manager can later uninstall that package.
The attached patch is what I committed to MacPorts to implement this; perhaps you could include it in the official version.
| Ryan Carsten Schmidt (z-launchpad-d) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in pbzip2: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Yavor Nikolov (yavor-nikolov) |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| milestone: | none → 1.1.13 |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| Changed in pbzip2: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
