X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ebf414d3d4f5fffb456327b5649c50d5a2de4e90..4c45dfce196291bc9ae3ffc4d00d403f1e17c680:/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn b/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn index fe22df19c..11557c822 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn @@ -17,17 +17,28 @@ Can't stat /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki: No such file or directory The PREFIX specified at build time should also affect the share directory - it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here. - Actually, the PREFIX, no matter where you specify it, is only - intended to control where files are _installed_, not where they're - looked for at runtime. +> Actually, the PREFIX, no matter where you specify it, is only +> intended to control where files are _installed_, not where they're +> looked for at runtime. - There's a good reason not to make PREFIX be used to actually - change the program's behavior: Most packaging systems use PREFIX - when building the package, to make it install into a temporary - directory which gets packaged up. +> There's a good reason not to make PREFIX be used to actually +> change the program's behavior: Most packaging systems use PREFIX +> when building the package, to make it install into a temporary +> directory which gets packaged up. - It would probably be nice if ikiwiki offered a separate build-time - setting to control where it looked for its data files, though it already - offers a way to do it at runtime (--underlaydir and --templatedir). +This is not the case. That is the difference between PREFIX and DESTDIR. - --[[Joey]] +DESTDIR does what you describe; it causes the files to be installed into some +directory you specify, which may not be the same place you'd eventually +run it from. + +PREFIX means build the software to run under the location given. Normally it +will also affect the location files are copied to, so that 'make install' +installs a working system. + +At least, that's the way I've always understood it; the MakeMaker documentation +isn't entirely clear (perhaps because ordinary Perl modules do not need to be +configured at build time depending on the installation directory). It does mention +that DESTDIR is the thing used by packaging tools. + +> Thanks for clarifying that. [[bugs/done]] --[[Joey]]