Re: DESTDIR support

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:23 -0500, Mike Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Oddly enough, Frank's method seems to work:
>
> Instead of my original attempt, which was : edit Makefile, set
> DESTDIR=/root/tmp, then run make install
> the second attempt:
>
> restore Makefile
> make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/root/net-snmp
>
> that worked. I don't understand, because the Makefile says
> 'INSTALL_PREFIX=$(DESTDIR), so both methods should have been the same.

I tried that, and it didn't work for me :-(. I'm not entirely sure why.
I've brute forced it for now by doing it this way:-

find . -name Makefile -exec perl -p -i -e 's#^(DESTDIR[^=]*=).*#\1 /root/net-snmp#' {} \;
make install

It's kind of evil, but it does the job...

Mike

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