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RE: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:21:23 +0400
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>
> I've applied this, but it doesn't look like it changes any of the internal
> variables, particularly module_path, that need to know where to find things
> (and install time is too late for that), so it's not clear to my how useful
> it actually is.
>

The main usage (IMHO) would be for package build. E.g. with SVR4 (a.k.a. Solaris
:-) package system you could build a package out of files in current directory.
In this case the ability to have image of actual installation tree is really
useful.

/andrej

References:
- Re: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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