Re: Portable Makefiles
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:40:52AM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience of making the DESTDIR idiom used in
> > Makefiles to get stuff to install in the right place portable across
> > at least GNU make, PMake (BSD) and Solaris make (preferably whatever POS
> > HP-UX uses, too)?
> You could define DESTDIR in a Makefile.GNU, Makefile.BSD,
> Makefile.Solaris etc and have them included appropriately.
You could, but boss-man upstream thinks that would be very ugly, and he's
right. But it looks increasingly like it's going to be ugly no matter what.
I've left this one hanging for a bit, so if anyone has any other suggestions,
I'd be grateful for them...
Surely *somebody* has worked this out nicely before?
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