On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:53:02PM -0400, cygwin at sipxx.com wrote: >When building the cygwin1.dll and associated pieces, it is desirable to >use the proper runtime --prefix parameters to 'configure'. After >building the tree, one might want to install it into a different base >directory than 'prefix' using, e.g., 'make install >DESTDIR=/my/own/dest', rather than installing into the running system. >Unfortunately as it stands, the build system will install only a portion >of the code into 'DESTDIR/prefix', and another portion simply into 'prefix'. > >The attached patch corrects the relevant Makefiles to honor the DESTDIR >variable. > >diff -ru orig/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in src/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in >--- orig/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in 2009-07-27 16:27:09.000000000 -0400 >+++ src/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in 2009-08-18 21:56:33.968750000 -0400
Thanks for the patch but these are all mingw-related and are under the control of the MinGW team. Please see: http://mingw.org/wiki/SubmitPatches for how to send patches there. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
