Var DESTDIR should be used from command line

Open edrozenberg opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

It would be nice if DESTDIR=somedir make install would use the DESTDIR var. Currently it has to be manually edited in the Makefile.

Jun 16 '20 16:06 edrozenberg

Thanks for the reminder. It will be updated shortly.

On the subject of Makefile. This morning, I came across your issue report on htop about compiling with ncurses/ncursesw under different names with different OS/distributions. With zero experience about autoconf Makefiles, I can't really understand the post...

Would you mind me asking for some guidance, or helpful link/reference?

Jun 16 '20 19:06 Titor8115

@Titor8115 thanks! I'm no expert on Makefiles either but I can tell when something doesn't work because I get an error :). The htop issue was specific to MacOS homebrew at that time. It's no longer an issue as you can see in brew edit htop - htop now requires ncurses provided by homebrew, depends_on "ncurses".

Jun 16 '20 20:06 edrozenberg