Issues with ubi utils Makefile

Mike Frysinger vapier.adi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 16:45:46 EDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:03, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Commit 96a4f76f2e9dad7fdbd6fd7740de44bc90d5769e broke 'make install'.
> Before that commit, $DESTDIR was undefined, so  ${DESTDIR}/${SBINDIR}
> was /usr/sbin, and after the commit $DESTDIR became /usr/local, so
> ${DESTDIR}/${SBINDIR} became /usr/local//usr/sbin, which is wrong.

that isnt really true.  DESTDIR had value in makefiles before my changes.

> Fix this by making $DESTDIR become the distination directory of installing,
> i.e. 'DESTDIR ?= /usr' and making SBINDIR become just 'sbin'.

i'd rather we change DESTDIR to match the standard -- it's a "root"
prefix only.  so the default should be:
DESTDIR ?=
-mike



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