Need EASY for END-USER install of source code

Posted Aug 9, 2009 10:26 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Need EASY for END-USER install of source code by dwheeler
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

But from what I've seen, someone who uses libtool will typically support DESTDIR as well (I speculate that if you're a libtool user, you're probably more interested in portability and thus more likely to support DESTDIR).

True. A quick audit here shows few examples: APR/apr-util/apache are the primary ones, but we know they're seriously weird to the point of not supporting biarch building without ugly hacks (and they have INSTALL_ROOT which you can use instead). (I mean, keeping around a copy of libtool from your configure process and reusing it in other projects? Ew.)