PATCH: Cygwin 1.7 build system, reason: not all Makefiles honor installation into DESTDIR

Wed Aug 19 18:06:00 GMT 2009

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年07月27日 16:27:09.000000000 -0400
>+++ src/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in	2009年08月18日 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
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