Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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:"
WORKSFORME.
Paul.
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