On 09/05/2014 23:15, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> You're repeating yourself without adding any explanatory information.
>
> When releasing software for other people to use, normally you'd
> package it elsewhere to -prefix, otherwise how do you untangle the Qt
> files from the rest of your files?
>
> As an example of this, from Arch Linux's Qt5 packaging function in the 
> PKGBUILD:
>
> package_qt5-base() {
> ..
>    cd ${_pkgfqn}/qtbase
>    make INSTALL_ROOT="${pkgdir}" install
Gentoo solves this by building packages in a sandbox. If Arch doesn't 
provide such a sand-boxed environment for package building then perhaps 
use a chroot to similar effect?

Cheers,

Sean

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