[asterisk-dev] updated: Re: DESTDIR vs INSTALL_PATH ?

[Simon Perreault]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 10:25:29 Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 1. comment out the [directories] section in the generated asterisk.conf
> because one can already make use of the default created at build time.
>    This can be changed easily by turning the section into a prototype:
>
> 	-	echo "[directories]" ; \
> 	+	echo "[directories](!) ; remove the (!) to enable this" ; \

+1

> 2. (less important because it can be fixed from the command line)
>    if DESTDIR is not set, inherit the value from INSTALL_PATH
>
> 	-#DESTDIR?=/tmp/asterisk
> 	DESTDIR?=${INSTALL_PATH}

No, this does not reflect the common usage of DESTDIR. Assuming INSTALL_PATH 
contains what is passed to --prefix, then a file is usually installed to

$(DESTDIR)$(INSTALL_PATH)/blah/here

So the default value of DESTDIR is empty. In the previous example of RPM 
building, files get installed somewhere like this:

/tmp/rpmbuild-XXX/usr/sbin/asterisk
/tmp/rpmbuild-XXX/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
...

In that case, DESTDIR=/tmp/rpmbuild-XXX and INSTALL_PATH=/usr (which gets 
overridden for /etc/asterisk).