Subject: [un]install-*-local/install-*-hook does not honor DESTDIR
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs
Date: 2004-12-19 12:29:06 GMT (4 years, 28 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours and 6 minutes ago)
Dear gentlemen.
It seems that as of versions 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 at least, automake does not
set DESTDIR when it executes install-data-local and similar targets.
if you do (as documentation suggests)
install-data-local:
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/afile $(DESTDIR)/etc/afile
and run "make install DESTDIR=/new/root", all "standard" targets are
installed inside /new/root, but "afile" is installed into real /etc/.
Minimum harm from it is that it breaks "make distcheck", but it may
seriously wreak havoc if "make install DESTDIR=..." is run as root...
Regards,
Eugene