Using DESTDIR during installation

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:43:16AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > Building and installing the proto/ and lib/ tree works quite well for
> > me - as long as I don't use DESTDIR 
> > (make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT) - which is quite common for a
> > Linux distribution. pkgconfig files, headers and libs cannot be found
> > this way.
> 
> I'm using DESTDIR to build Debian packages with several modules now, and
> not having any problems.  Of course, for example, ICE will have to be
> installed before SM can be built, because SM depends on ICE.  Building
> them all at once will need tricks like this.

So you are building all the subdirs in lib/ separately? Talking about
tricks. How can I expand the library path for the linker
(-L$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib) and tell this autogen.sh/configure?

Best regards,
Stefan

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