From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:07:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add DEST Makefile variable
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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