git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PACKAGERS] Makefile: DESTDIR vs. dest

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jul 29, 2005, 13:30 UTC
Message-ID
<20050729133015.GC21909@pasky.ji.cz>
  Hello,
  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.
  Thanks,
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone.  -- Alan Cox
Next: Joel Becker
Message 1 of 2 in “[PACKAGERS] Makefile: DESTDIR vs. dest”
  1. Petr BaudisJul 29, 2005
  2. Joel BeckerJul 29, 2005

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.