Re: how to determine the file list for a spec file
"Fulko Hew" <[email protected]>
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On Oct 31, 2007 2:06 PM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: > Fulko Hew wrote: > > If I have a project that I've inherited, and when I > > run it's make install it scatters files all over the filesystem... > > Oh fun... > > > Is there an easy way of finding out what files went where, > > in order to come up with the list of files to put into the %files > section? > ... snip ... > > The project uses 'configure' and I thought I could adjust > > the -prefix option to 'install' the project into a 'jail' directory > > that I could just then scan, but the -prefix value tends > > to be used inside the applications to 'know where they > > were installed'. > > One: If it is a reasonable set of autotools then setting DESTDIR will > override the installation root. Look to see if that is available. If > so then that is definitely the better of the two things to set. ... snip ... Thanks! That was the soulution I was looking for, and what I thought I had with --prefix. '--prefix' is the wrong answer to my problem, and DESTDIR is the right answer. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list