Re: [LAD] Auto-wah plugin

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).

... 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' ...