On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:03 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > Hiyas, > > > > the Packaging Guidelines contradict itself about the usage of %makeinstall > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-fcaf3e6fcbd51194a5d0dbcfbdd2fcb7791dd002 > > > > The headline says "Why the %makeinstall macro should not be used" and the > > first sentence says "RPM, as included in Fedora, includes a %makeinstall > > macro, but you must NOT use this macro in Fedora packages." > > > > It seems to be used by a lot of maintainers, so is this just a should not or > > is this another candidate for a major specfile-cleanup project? > > Whoever wrote this text misrepresents the conclusion of the discussion > that lead to its inclusion I think. > > "make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install" should be *preferred* when it works, > but there are times when %makeinstall works and there is no DESTDIR > support in a package's Makefiles, so writing this as a "must not" as it > is at the moment is just daft IMHO. Does this make more sense? "Fedora's RPM includes a %makeinstall macro but it must NOT be used when make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} will work. %makeinstall is a kludge that can work with broken Makefiles that don't make use of the DESTDIR variable but it has the following potential issues:" -Toshio
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