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Subject: Re: Makefiles (a modest proposal)
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 13:27:54 EST
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In article <3279@osu-eddie.UUCP>, cbatt!osu-eddie!bob@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> In the distribution
> version, these could be something like:
>       BINDIR= /usr/new
>       LIBDIR= /usr/new/lib

As another example, the Andrew distribution has the following symbols
defined,

BINDIR - directory for all executable binarys
LIBDIR - directory for libraries
INCLDIR - directory for include files
HELPDIR - directory for help and man pages
DOCDIR - directory for documentation
FONTDIR - directory for fonts
ETCDIR - directory for system maintenace programs and random files

and each use of these directories is prefixed by DESTDIR which is
assumed to be the root of the whole subtree.  This allows you to
test the installation into /tmp by setting DESTDIR=/tmp, or  
whereever.  By leaving DESTDIR blank, everything starts at /

To save having to define these in every Makefile, they define a
special program which puts a wrapper around the Makfile and then
invokes make on it.  The wrapper defines all these variables (and
some more like the CFLAGS and INSTALL command options).
-- 
James Peterson
peterson@mcc.com  or  ...sally!im4u!milano!peterson