Re: lilypond and python

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr> writes:
>  - "make install" is called with prefix=debian/tmp/..., this is usually
>    wrong

Well, some packages screw things up of course, but in a package
following the GNU coding standards (whence "prefix" comes) the Makefile
is supposed to separate install-time actions from compile-time actions:

   `prefix'
         ....
        Running `make install' with a different value of `prefix' from the
        one used to build the program should _not_ recompile the program.

So `configure --prefix=foo; make; make install prefix=bar' is still the
recommended way to install to an alternate root.

Even very recent versions of  the GNU coding standards do not
mandate DESTDIR support, though they mention it.

Of course who knows what coding standards lilypond ascribes to...

-Miles
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