Re: Installing A-A-P with a non-existent PREFIX

Scott Harrison wrote:

> Okay, here is my spam-question-du-jour.
> 
> > > non-existent PREFIX (i.e. aap install PREFIX=/no/such/path); I think it
> 
> Does PREFIX work against everything (@install_files), or just against
> the default list of targets (install-data, install-exec,
> install-include, etc)?

It works for everything.

> DESTDIR will automatically process for @install_files, right?

Yes.

> Right now, I am doing something like this (which from reading
> the documentation and this thread is wrong):
> 
> # The leading filesystem path (ordinarily blank, used for testing).
> PREFIX =
> 
> # Filesystem locations
> DOCUMENTROOT = $(PREFIX)/usr/local/www/data
> WEBSERVERLOGS = $(PREFIX)/var/log
> 
> sometarget:
>   @install_files(_no.DOCUMENTROOT, etc....

You can set $PREFIX to an empty string, but this has the meaning of
installing in /usr/local.  To really install in the root directory set
it to "/".

Is it a problem that install_files() always prepends $DESTDIR/$PREFIX
to the directory passed to it?

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