install root patch

Alexandre Oliva kaffe@rufus.w3.org
21 Jul 1998 17:12:00 -0300


Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> writes:

> This simply prefixes all install target directories with a variable
> INSTROOT, which by default is the empty string. So you could, e.g.,
> install into /tmp/usr/local while still "targeting" /usr/local.

If this is going to be installed, I'd suggest to replace INSTROOT with 
DESTDIR, that has been commonly used for this very purpose on other
tools, and has become quite standard.

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Alexandre Oliva
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