Re: DESTDIR in a native distro. How ?

[Ionutz Borcoman <borco@borco-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:18:52PM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> > How do I set the DESTDIR in my Makefile ? If a non-debian user will
> > download the package, he/she will want to install my program in
> > /usr/local. If he/she is a debian user, the deb package should be
> > created from the tar.gz and files moved to completely different places,
> > like /etc, /usr/X11R6 ....
> >
> > So which is the best way for solving this ?
> 
> Perhaps you could do something like this in your makefile:
> 
> PREFIX=/usr/local
> 
> install:
>         install mybinary $(PREFIX)/bin
>         install mymanualpage.1 $(PREFIX)/man/man1
> 
> Then in your debian/rules file, you can do "make install PREFIX=/usr"
> Or more like "make install PREFIX=debian/tmp/usr"
> 
> Hamish

Is this acceptable ? I use a conditional in my Makefile to decide the
correct location:

1. in the rules:

build: build-stamp
build-stamp:
	dh_testdir

	
	# Add here commands to compile the package.
	$(MAKE) MY_DEBIAN_SYSTEM=1

	touch build-stamp

install: install-stamp
install-stamp: build-stamp
	dh_testdir
	dh_testroot
	dh_clean -k
	dh_installdirs

	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp MY_DEBIAN_SYSTEM=1

	touch install-stamp

2. in my Makefile:

###### Files & Directories
DESTDIR=
MY_DEBIAN_SYSTEM=

OTHER_OBJ = 
SRC = 	main.cc\
		config.cc \
		jputils.cc 
OBJ = 	main.o \
		config.o \
		jputils.o \
		$(OTHER_OBJ)
TARGET=langdrill
CONFIG_FILE=default.drill
MAN_PAGE=../docs/langdrill.1x

###### Test for Debian GNU/Linux
# If yoyr system is not Debian GNU/Linux please modify the values after
# "else" statement. Modifying the values before else is useless, unless
# you also set MY_DEBIAN_SYSTEM=1

ifeq ($(MY_DEBIAN_SYSTEM),1)
	MY_MESSAGE_OF_THE_DAY=">>" $(TARGET) compilled for Debian GNU/Linux
system. "<<"
	CONFIG_DIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/vdk/langdrill
	BIN_DIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/X11R6/bin
	MAN_DIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/X11R6/man/man1

	# VDK is not yet packed. The resulting .deb file needs VDK statically
linked.
	# However, to make the VDK you still need the VDK installed.
	LFLAGS = `gtk-config --libs` /usr/local/lib/libvdk.a
/usr/local/lib/libvdkcompo.a
else
	MY_MESSAGE_OF_THE_DAY=">>" $(TARGET) compilled for NON-Debian GNU/Linux
system. "<<"
	CONFIG_DIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/local/share/vdk/langdrill
	BIN_DIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/local/bin
	MAN_DIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/local/man/man1

	# VDK must be installed. We link the shared libs.
	LFLAGS = `gtk-config --libs` -lvdk -lvdkcompo

endif

This way I get as much freedom as I want: 
a. non-Debian users just give a make from the top dir.
b. Debian users give just dpkg-buildpackage.

TIA,

Ionutz