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

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Aug 18 20:24:47 UTC 2006


On Friday 18 August 2006 15:02, 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

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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