manual: use of prefix redirection @ make install time vs DESTDIR
Claudio Fontana <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:31:10 +0200
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Hello, I quickly read through the stow manual, the chapter about how to configure/install software from source for later use with stow. I think that a better course of action at make install time is to just let the prefix be, (no prefix= redirection) and instead use DESTDIR for the staged installation. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#DESTDIR DESTDIR has good support in most GNU packages (emacs included btw), so maybe the manual could be updated to cite DESTDIR? Thank you, Claudio