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| author | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2000-09-17 13:02:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2000-09-17 13:02:52 +0000 |
| commit | 335248c9b7cf590f03c67aa0cadfcf95627fedd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bdb05df045f4334c270b5f1cb18b84b3d48b20c /src/backend/commands/variable.c | |
| parent | e930a9a97b46113a8932feb8555a3df362056080 (diff) | |
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Support for DESTDIR make variable. This is used as in `make install
DESTDIR=/else/where' and prepends the value of DESTDIR to the full
installation paths (e.g., /else/where/usr/local/pgsql/bin). This allows
users to install the package into a location different from the one that
was configured and hard-coded into various scripts, e.g., for creating
binary packages.
DESTDIR is in many cases preferrable over `make install
prefix=/else/where' because
a) `prefix' affects the path that is hard-coded into the files, which can
lead to a `make install prefix=xxx' (as done by the regression test
driver) corrupting the files in the source tree with wrong paths.
b) it doesn't work at all if a directory was overridden to not depend on
`prefix', e.g., --sysconfdir=/etc.
(Updating the regression test driver to use DESTDIR is a separate
undertaking.)
See also autoconf@gnu.org, From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>, Date: 08
Sep 2000 12:48:59 +0200, Message-ID:
<mv4em2vb1lw.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr>, Subject: Re: HTML format
documentation.
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