Re: packages going to the wrong place?

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

On May 18, 2011, at 6:45 34PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 
> Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> writes:
> 
>>>  make install
>> 
>>> installs into a work/.destdir.
>> This behavuour was reverted some time ago.
>> Even if USE_DESTDIR is set to "yes" (now the default),
>> "make install" builds the binary package first
>> and then installs it.
> 
> Excellent - I'm glad to hear I was confused.  I just checked and indeed
> it behaves as you say.    I didn't notice because I trained myself to
> type 'make install'.

Right -- and I use 'make package' because I have a build machine that
is producing packages for several others.

In any event, 'make package-install' does what I want; everything is
working now.  My thanks to everyone.


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