On Monday 2011-02-14 16:25, Fabrice wrote: >> >> On Monday 2011-02-14 16:03, Fabrice wrote: >> >> >I'm using DESTDIR but it requires an absolute path which is only valid >> >on the platform I compile. Suppose the DESTDIR is my NFS which is what >> >my embedded platform uses, it will try to load the xtables libraries by >> >using the absolute path from the install. This path is unknown from the >> >embedded platform point of view. >> >> ./configure --prefix=/usr >> make install DESTDIR=/srv/nfsroot >> >> It can't be so hard to use that. > >That is what I do and you are right it's not hard. The problem is on the >embedded platform it will try to load the libs from /srv/nfsroot/ It won't. It will load then from the prefix. Otherwise, a helluva lot Linux distros would have run into the problem already, because they use DESTDIR when making their packages. >which is not valid. The absolute path is only valid on the platform where the >install was done. I'm not sure if I explain the problem properly...I hope so... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
