[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2244: Support for DESTDIR withinthe Makefiles

[Michael Sweet]

Ryan Lovett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> [STR Closed w/o Resolution]
>>
>> Dupe of STR #763...
>>
>> CUPS uses "BUILDROOT" to specify this.  We have no plans of changing this
>> to the GNU "standard" DESTDIR.
>>
>> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2244
>> Version:  -feature
>> Fix Version: Will Not Fix
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why do you use BUILDROOT instead of DESTDIR?

Because DESTDIR is not standard, and we've used BUILDROOT for many many
years.

 > What
> about possibly adding the line:
> 
> BUILDROOT ?= $DESTDIR

That is a GNUism and not portable.

We are not interested in adding support for DESTDIR, sorry...

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