Re: Plans [Re: Cameleon 1.0]

[Jérôme Marant <marant.logatique@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:29:47PM +0200, Maxence Guesdon wrote:
>  
> > I think it would be nice to preprend $(DESTDIR) to
> > installation variables, IIRC in master.Makefile.in. Example:
> > 
> > libdir=$(DESTDIR)@libdir@
> > 
> > So, we can change the root like this:
> > make install DESTDIR=/some/where 
> 
> I can't do that because one of the modules of cameleon,
> used by cameleon and cam-config, is created by the configure
> script and contains the installation directories
> (cameleon/cam_installation.ml.in -> cameleon/cam_installation.ml).
> This would result in cameleon looking for shared plugins
> and default templates in wrong directories, and cam-config
> printing wrong directories.

  But DESTDIR would only be used for installation.
  When it's empty, this doesn't change anything: it is meant to
  be overriden for installation purpose.

  I may be possible to find another solution though.

-- 
Jérôme Marant