On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:59 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes: > > > What planet are you living on? Here on Earth, most software builds with > > > just: > > > ./configure > > > make > > > make install > > This is an urban legend. > > No, it's not. > > > Most packages build with > > %configure > > make > > make DESTDIR=... install > > > > If you have look into %configure you can observe what I say. > > Those flags configure the package for the defaults of Fedora. They aren't > required to actually compile most software. Instead, they set distro-specific > configuration such as optimization flags, security flags and some installation > paths (such as the multilib libdir). Right, this is called "the art of packaging", and where the naughty details are lurking. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
