[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add DESTDIR support to Makefiles

İsmail Dönmez ismail
Tue Oct 18 10:31:22 CEST 2005


On Monday 17 October 2005 10:53, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> > smail D?nmez wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Following patch adds DESTDIR support so you can do :
> > >
> > > make install # Normal install to /
> > > make DESTDIR=/home/cartman/ffmpeg install # Install
> > > under /home/cartman/ffmpeg/usr etc
> > >
> > > DESTDIR is a must for packaging. Also note that this patch doesn't
> > > affect any
> > > functionality so it works as expected.
> > >
> > > Please comment/review/apply :)
> >
> > 	Isn't this the kind of thing that usually belongs in the configure
> > script?
>
> No, it's one of the few really handy real features of autoconf based
> things (those done right, many fail to support that), so that you can
> install where you want, while configuring elsewhere.
> Very useful when used in a bigger project.

So can we please apply this patch or tell me if there is anything wrong with 
it with respect to whitespace or something?

Regards,
ismail





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