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Re: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:28:26 +0200
In-reply-to: "Clint Adams"'s message of "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 22:39:35 DFT." <19990820223935.A5728@xxxxxxxx>
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Clint Adams wrote:
> This enables use of the DESTDIR variable which greatly facilitates
> the installation of zsh in an alternate location without unwanted
> behavior that can result from changing $(prefix).
> 
> e.g. make install DESTDIR=/tmp/test-chroot

I've applied this, but it doesn't look like it changes any of the internal
variables, particularly module_path, that need to know where to find things
(and install time is too late for that), so it's not clear to my how useful
it actually is.

Now I'm only 1/2 million patches behind.

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Follow-Ups:
- RE: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install
  - From: Andrej Borsenkow
- Re: PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install
  - From: Bart Schaefer

References:
- PATCH: add DESTDIR functionality to install
  - From: Clint Adams

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