Subject: Re: [PACKAGERS] Makefile: DESTDIR vs. dest

From: Joel Becker <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:42:28 -0700

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:30:15PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   git has $dest in its Makefile while Cogito uses $DESTDIR. I'd like to
> ask the potential users of those variables (probably mostly distribution
> package maintainers) what's easier for them and what do they prefer, as
> I would like to unify this.

	DESTDIR is "standardized" by automake.  Doesn't make it best,
but does make it expected by a lot of folks.

Joel

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