[PATCH] Install config files
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Mon Feb 24 11:07:00 GMT 2014
ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> > Correct order is for `make install [DESTDIR=...]' to not touch
> > SYSCONFDIR.
>
> No. The files are part of glibc, so they are supposed to be
> installed.
>
> This is not going forward. It has nothing to do with glibc being
> special, it has to do with plain old semantics for how `make install'
> works across all GNU projects -- and that is not to modify existing
> files in SYSCONFDIR.
make install is *NOT* a package manager.
Andreas.
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