Re: Use Stow to manage installation of librep and friends?

[John Harper <jsh unfactored org>]

the various spec.in files in the source distributions should give some 
hints, e.g. in rep-gtk:

%install
[ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf 
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make install \
    host_type=%{_target_platform} \
    installdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libexecdir}/rep/%{_target_platform}

Also, they should all respect DESTDIR to supply an extra prefix 
directory, e.g. "DESTDIR=/tmp/foo make install" will install under 
/tmp/foo

    John


On Feb 10, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Has anyone here ever tried to use Stow to manage the installation of
> librep and friends?
>
> It seems kinda difficult to redirect the "make install" step to a
> different directory.  The installation of rep-gtk wants to install
> itself into the directory where librep is installed and so on.
>
> The installation step of rep-gtk wants to append to a file from librep
> or from gtk it seems.
>
> Perhaps I'm trying to separate packages too much, and I need to
> install librep, rep-gtk, and sawfish into the same physical location?
>
> Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, I thought I might ask if
> someone has already done this.
>
> tia,
> Kai