Re: packages going to the wrong place?

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On May 18, 2011, at 5:26 31PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 
> So with DESTDIR mode, when you do
> 
>  make
> 
> it's the same as before, and
> 
>  make install
> 
> installs into a work/.destdir.  If you want the package actually
> installed on your machine, you type:
> 
>  make package-install
> 
> which works in either mode.  It's arguably a bug that 'install' was
> repurposed to something that doesn't installl.
> 
> make replace will now
>  build
>  install to destdir
>  make a binary package from that
>  pkg_add -U

Thanks -- though I'm quite certain I'd delete the word "arguably"
from your reply.  But it's working now.


                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb