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Re: [PATCH] Add DEST Makefile variable

From
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Apr 21, 2005, 23:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20050421230732.GA13311@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To
<7vr7h3d9cu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Hi,
Junio C Hamano:
> I sent essentially the same some time ago and got a comment to
> follow established naming convention.
>

Well, for a Makefile which installs in basically one directory, that seems to be overkill.

>     # DESTDIR=
>     BINDIR=$(HOME)/bin
>             install foobar $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/
>

That doesn't make sense; if you set DESTDIR, you are not going to install in $HOME.

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