[LAD] Auto-wah plugin

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:48:27AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

> Fons - you don't! DESTDIR is empty by default. Hence "make install"
> installs directly for a regular user who has not bothered to set it.
> PREFIX is the way that a non-packaging user targets the install to
> somewhere other than the default, no matter what "the web page about
> DESTDIR says". DESTDIR is strictly for packagers/developers, and
> merely has to be supported by the makefile, not used by a "regular
> user".
> 
> The reason for having two distinct variables is that some software
> needs to know PREFIX at compile time (e.g. where to find conf files,
> or private shared libraries, etc). If the packager is aiming to
> install the software in /foo/bar eventually, then she needs to set
> PREFIX appropriately. But they may want to use /baz/bomb as a "staging
> ground" for packaging, hence DESTDIR. Again, this does not affect
> "regular users", who simple set PREFIX (if anything at all).

Yes, that is and already was very clear, but:

[Renato]

> ... but the fact is that in Arch
> for building from source in a pacman-aware (pacman is Arch's package
> manager) manner, you need the DESTDIR option... infact you first
> install all the files with the exact same direcotry tree as would
> do 'make install' but, instead of in root, in a working directory...
> i.e. you do 'make DESTDIR=/pathtotmpdir install' ...

Which to me seems to mean that in Arch even users who install
from source are supposed (I never wrote 'forced') to do this.

Ciao,


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FA

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