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diff --git a/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn b/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn index fe22df19c..af2ee35cb 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn @@ -26,6 +26,21 @@ it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here. when building the package, to make it install into a temporary directory which gets packaged up. +This is not the case. That is the difference between PREFIX and DESTDIR. + +DESTDIR does what you describe; it causes the files to be installed into some +directory you specify, which may not be the same place you'd eventually +run it from. + +PREFIX means build the software to run under the location given. Normally it +will also affect the location files are copied to, so that 'make install' +installs a working system. + +At least, that's the way I've always understood it; the MakeMaker documentation +isn't entirely clear (perhaps because ordinary Perl modules do not need to be +configured at build time depending on the installation directory). It does mention +that DESTDIR is the thing used by packaging tools. + It would probably be nice if ikiwiki offered a separate build-time setting to control where it looked for its data files, though it already offers a way to do it at runtime (--underlaydir and --templatedir). |