Trying to improve x49gp

[ijabbott]

(11-17-2021 11:02 PM)3298 Wrote:  

(11-17-2021 09:52 PM)gwh Wrote:  It also adds DESTDIR in the Makefile because I make a (Slackware) package and this makes it easier.

Uhh, so where's the problem this is supposed to solve that isn't already solved by overriding INSTALL_PREFIX (see the Arch PKGBUILD I attached to an earlier post in this thread)?
In short, I run make all with INSTALL_PREFIX set to where it's supposed to be installed eventually (so the handful of directory references compiled into the binary are correct), then make install with INSTALL_PREFIX set to the equivalent directory inside the one that gets compressed into a package by the packaging utility. That's the kind of process I've seen in packaging other software, and therefore the process I designed the INSTALL_PREFIX variable for when I implemented the install target.

The point is that DESTDIR is not where the files would eventually end up when installing the package. It points to a temporary staging directory used to construct a binary package from the "installed" files without actually installing them in the live system for real. Combined with the fakeroot command, it allows for building binary packages in an environment that appears to have root privileges without the builder actually having root privileges. See DESTDIR: Support for Staged Installs for DESTDIR's use in GNU coding standards.