Re: Plans [Re: Cameleon 1.0]

[Remi VANICAT <vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Maxence Guesdon <maxence.guesdon@inria.fr> writes:

>> 
>>   I didn't make myself clear, my apologies.
>> 
>>   DESTDIR is for packaging purposes: the whole software tree
>>   will be installed in this target, and then the package tool
>>   creates the package from this directory, so DESTDIR does
>>   not appear anywhere in the package.
>
> Sorry, i still do not understand :-(
> Where to you launch make install DESTDIR=/some/where ?
> Is it in Cameleon of in your package sources?
> In Cameleon -> will not work
> In your package -> Ah, ok, I think I understand, but what about
> launching the configure script with options like  
> -libdir $DESTDIR/lib ... ?
>
> I don't know how you create .deb packages so i'm a bit confused.

to make a deb package you have to :
configure it as it was to be install into /usr
install it into $SRC_DIR/debian/package-name/usr/
then build the deb from this directory.

So the use of the make install DESTDIR=/some/where

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