DESTDIR usage

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Jun 10 07:26:40 EST 2008


On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Matthew L. Creech wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been patching OpenSSH [portable] so that I can override DESTDIR
> when cross-compiling.  Is there any reason not to allow this in the
> general case?  Thanks!

I don't follow - you can always override DESTDIR:

make DESTDIR=/tmp/foo install

-d


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