Till Maas wrote:
Hiyas,
the Packaging Guidelines contradict itself about the usage of %makeinstall
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-fcaf3e6fcbd51194a...
The headline says "Why the %makeinstall macro should not be used" and the
first sentence says "RPM, as included in Fedora, includes a %makeinstall
macro, but you must NOT use this macro in Fedora packages."
It seems to be used by a lot of maintainers, so is this just a should not or
is this another candidate for a major specfile-cleanup project?
Whoever wrote this text misrepresents the conclusion of the discussion
that lead to its inclusion I think.
"make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install" should be *preferred* when it works,
but there are times when %makeinstall works and there is no DESTDIR
support in a package's Makefiles, so writing this as a "must not" as it
is at the moment is just daft IMHO.
Paul.