[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0036 make install doesn't create needed directories

[Rob Crittenden]

Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> When installing client from source with 'make client-install'
> some essential directories are not created which makes
> ipa-client-install to fail.
>
> I have opted to allow creating /etc/ipa and
> /var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore only if DESTDIR is specified.
> Distributing ipa-client in source form is defeating purpose of
> FreeIPA, in most cases proper packaging should be preferred. What's
> important is to hint to packagers what directories should be
> essential, and thus created in $(DESTDIR). Even source-based
> distributions have one or another form of packaging that makes this
> issue less problematic.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1849

I wonder if we should @echo something about DESTDIR not set so we aren't 
creating the directories.

rob