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Re: DESTDIR vs. libstdc++

To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Subject: Re: DESTDIR vs. libstdc++
From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
Date: 04 Jul 2001 14:07:11 -0700
Organization: The Eyrie
References: <20010704141244.A631@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr><87elrwmw18.fsf@creche.redhat.com>

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> Note that most GNU-style Makefiles work if you run configure with a
> given --prefix and then change it at `make install' time:

>     /gcc/configure --prefix=/whatever
>     make
>     make install prefix=/destdir/whatever

> This was common practice in GNU for a long time (this method is also
> supported by automake).  I don't recall if it is in the GNU coding
> standards (many things like this are not).  I also don't know if this
> is supported by the gcc Makefiles.

It is.  Our local installation procedure relies on it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

References:
- DESTDIR vs. libstdc++
  - From: Marc Espie
- Re: DESTDIR vs. libstdc++
  - From: Tom Tromey

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