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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:31:22AM +0300, ?smail D?nmez wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2005 10:53, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> > > smail D?nmez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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?

Samuel Hocevar achieves the same effect with the following (much
simpler) patch in his Debian packages.

Sam, what do you say?  I'm tempted to apply your patch.

Diego