Hi Bertrand, > 'make distcheck' will attempt to make a tarball, untar it, build it > (in out-of-source tree style), clean it, check it, install it and > uninstall it. > > You can use DESTDIR to make the install/uninstall in an ordinary > directory, e.g.: > mkdir ~/tmp > make distcheck DESTDIR=~/tmp/
I'm very surprised that the `install' run as part of `distcheck' wants to install in the default central location and not a temporary directory. No one would seriously want the install run in that manner to do that? It's not how I recall distcheck working. Is this the default behaviour? Can it be changed to be a temporary directory, just as the tarball is untarred somewhere temporary? Cheers, Ralph.
