[Click] Patch for DESTDIR, making click easier to distribute as RPM

[Eddie Kohler]

Ah, thanks for this explanation.  I'll add the $(DESTDIR).

Eddie


On Aug 12, 2004, at 9:33 AM, Jeff Gold wrote:

> Eddie Kohler wrote:
>> Thanks, but I'm not going to apply this.  Why wouldn't you just 
>> change the values of $(bindir) et al by prefixing $(DESTDIR)?
>
> Because when making RPM packages you want to install the files 
> somewhere
> other than their final destinations.  This is useful because:
>
>   * Building the package doesn't require installing on the build
>     machine.  That keeps the build machine stable.
>
>   * A user other than root can build packages even though they
>     can't actually write to $(bindir) and friends.
>
> Also, DESTDIR comes in handy when building chroot jails, user-mode 
> Linux
> partitions and things like that.
>
>> Furthermore shouldn't it be something like bindir = 
>> $(DESTDIR)@bindir@ rather than $(DESTDIR)/@bindir@, in case @bindir@ 
>> was a relative path?
>
> Probably so.  Makefiles generated by automake seem to use the 
> equivalent
> of $(DESTDIR)@bindir@ everywhere.
>
>                                            Jeff