Re: location dependencies
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I built my first test package a short time ago and all seemed to go well. I
> have a question about how to solve some location dependencies that exist in a
> few packages that I plan to create.
>
> When I built my test package I specified to the 'configure' script the
> '--prefix' option was inside my debian directory. This worked fine for this
> package. My question is how do I handle it if the package uses this location
> to find libraries and config files at runtime.
>
> For instance if I specify --prefix=debian/tmp the package will not find it's
> needed files at runtime since this directory only exists when I am creating my
> package.
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp
or
make install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr
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