Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/somethingon hdd?
Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:20:04PM +0200, bilibop project wrote:
>> I don't understand the need to call a shell script from the Makefile. According to the FHS,
>> the main directories where you may want to install shell scripts, shell libraries, config files
>> and their documentation are: /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr, /lib, and why not, /var. So you can use
>> a very generic "install" target - and probably more portable/elegant than the find command
>> above - with something like
>>
>> DESTDIR ?= /
>> install:
>> for d in bin etc lib sbin usr var; do if [ -d $${d} ]; then cp -R $${d} ${DESTDIR}; fi; done
>>
>> That's all; this doesn't need a lot of rsync's or find's exceptions.
> This (and at least some other recipes in this thread) fails the common
> asusmption that make install without DESTDIR installs to /usr/local, not
> to /usr and /.
Is this a problem for inclusion into debian?
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