Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/somethingon hdd?

[Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:08:33AM +0000, Patrick Schleizer 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?
No.

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