Suggestion: --PACKAGEROOT option for MAKE

[Andreas Jaeger]

Matthew Carpenter <matt@eisgr.com> writes:

> Would it be possible to include something like a "--PACKAGEMAKE" option for the MAKE command?  This would be used during a "make install" operation and would treat the accompanying directory as the root directory, allowing packagers (like RPM) a simple way to cleanly build packages.
>
> make --PACKAGEROOT=/var/tmp/BuildRoot/ install

Use make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/BuildRoot install

DESTDIR is the GNU way to do this and already implemented in binutils.

If you want a make change for this, ask on the make lists,

Andreas
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