On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:18 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the top post.... > > Personally, %makeinstall should be left to the developers discretion. I didn't say anything else. It's each packager's freedom to avoid making his live easy. > As > you had already previously stated: > > "Why the %makeinstall? makeinstall is an anachronism and should only be > used if make DESTDIR=... install is nonfunctional." Exactly. There is no point in making "make DESTDIR=... install" mandatory, but if a configuration supports it, there less reason not to use it. > So, that would imply, that there could be a case for it. I don't know if > rasqal falls into this, but if it works with make DEST... install then > it should that. > > Re: broken .la files... who cares? Libtool is just an example of a tool of which some versions are using "install-hooks". There exist many more. > its a pointless concern since Fedora > policy is not to ship .la files. Well, a lot of the FUD people spread on libtool stems from people facing side-effects of %makeinstall ;) Whether Fedora not shipping *.la's is a good decision or not is another topic (IMO, this decision is a fault). Ralf