[Fedora-packaging] %makeinstall - must not or should not use it?

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Aug 20 08:18:57 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:02 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> "Fedora's RPM includes a %makeinstall macro but it must NOT be used when
> make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} will work.  %makeinstall is a kludge
> that can work with Makefiles that don't make use of the DESTDIR variable
> but it has the following potential issues:"

+1




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