[avahi] How to avoid make install directories being built into avahi-daemon?

[Olle Blomgren]

Ahh. There you go. Thanks a bunch!

BRs
/Olle

On 11/19/12, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Olle" == Olle Blomgren <ollemblomgren at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  Olle> Hi,
>  Olle> I'm cross compiling your code for use in an embedded Linux
>  Olle> environment. My build system works like this:
>  Olle> 1)
>  Olle>  I extract all source code in packages and place all of them in a
>  Olle> root directory, eg:
>
>  Olle> /home/olle/myrootdir/avahi
>  Olle> /home/olle/myrootdir/packageA
>  Olle> /home/olle/myrootdir/packageB
>  Olle>                      :
>  Olle>                     etc
>  Olle>                      :
>
>  Olle> 2)
>  Olle> When I run make int the root dir all packages are built and
>  Olle> installed in a target directory, eg:
>  Olle> /home/olle/myrootdir/target/sbin/avahi-daemon
>  Olle> /home/olle/myrootdir/target/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
>  Olle>                                     :
>  Olle>                                    etc
>  Olle>                                     :
>  Olle> To achieve step 2 use configure --prefix=/home/olle/myrootdir/target
>
> Don't do that. Use --prefix=path-on-target (E.G. /usr) and then pass
> DESTDIR=host-location-of-target-rootfs when you run make install, or
> even better use one of the existing cross build systems.
>
> I'm the maintainer of buildroot (http://buildroot.net), but I believe
> just about all of them have avahi packages.
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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