On Sunday, 16 May 2004, at 16:05:17 (+0800), Abel Cheung wrote: > The rule of thumb is, use %makeinstall for older autoconf/automake > (such as autoconf 2.13 & automake 1.4), and make install DESTDIR= > for newer auto*. I'm not sure where you got that rule of thumb, but my experience with automake 1.4 has been that DESTDIR works just fine. autoconf really doesn't enter the picture since it does not define Makefile rules; it simply does replacements. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "We cannot offer you a position at this time, but you are obviously qualified. Unfortunately, the other six billion people on Earth are more qualified." -- Dogbert, from the "Dilbert" cartoons _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
