Thanks,Paul. It works as you directed.

Allen Liu

IP Application Design and Engineering
Bell Canada
(613) 781-7368, allen AT bellglobal DOT com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Bijnens" <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon AT dvalentine DOT com>
Cc: "Jonathan Dill" <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>; <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: fake install path


> Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:10:13PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >
> >>Jonathan Dill wrote:
>  >>
> >>>make install VARIABLE=/tmp/amanda-2.4.4p2
> >>
> >>The prefix= can be specified to override the configure prefix
> >>like:
> >>
> >>  make install prefix=/tmp/amanda-2.4.4p2
> >
> >
> > This is not what you want, Jonathan.  DESTDIR is the correct variable to
> > overload for package building at the make install stage.  PREFIX is
> > defined at configure time as the install location.  DESTDIR will be
> > prepended to PREFIX at make install time.
>
> Thanks for correcting me.  I also found a decent explanation:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_107.html
>
>
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