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

[İsmail Dönmez]

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 10:50, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005, ?smail D?nmez wrote:
> > >    No. These -D flags are compile-time flags. DESTDIR is only specified
> > > for "make install" and is set to nothing during the build phase.
> >
> > No but you change lib_dir, conf_dir in config.mak which is legal to use
> > in code. But for now its not used at all.
>
>    Again: these variables and files are *not* changed when DESTDIR is
> not specified, and DESTDIR should *not* be specified when compiling (and
> it isn't in any of the distributions I know), so it does not affect code
> at all.
>
> > But if someone uses that as variable in code your patch would break.
>
>    Uh, no it wouldn't.

Uh,ok got it. It would only break if DESTDIR is set before configuring (isn't 
that still a bad practise? ;) ). Sorry for the misunderstanding. Well ok lets 
apply Sam's patch :)

Regards,
ismail