From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:20 GMT
Subject: Re: install does not obey DESTDIR or --prefix for perl modules
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Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> Craig Taylor wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I'm compiling/installing git in a Solaris environment without root.
>> Using 'make DESTDIR=<some path> install' to stage an install to an
>> alternate location.
>> The perl module component of 'make DESTDIR=<some path> install' installs
>> into the system perl lib path without prepending the forced install
>> destination or my '--prefix'.
>> This seems counter intuitive and I would consider a bug.
>
> Try 'make prefix=<some path>'.
>
> btw, this is in the first paragraph of the INSTALL document.

But is that what Craig is trying to do?

I think he wants to build git to be installed in /usr/bin/git or whatever,
and he would say "prefix=/usr".  He however wants "make install" to write
into /var/tmp/g/usr/bin/git, not /usr/bin/git, so that he can for example
make a tarball with "cd /var/tmp/g && tar cf ../git.tar .", and extract it
as root under the real '/'.  "make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/g" is exactly for
that, and if it is not working I would say it is a bug.