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

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Mon Aug 21 17:18:46 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:18 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 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

With my +1, that's six.

Thanks all,
Toshio
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