[PATCH modular 04/13] build.sh: allow user to specify an alternate datadir

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Gaetan Nadon wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 12:22 -0700, Matt Dew wrote:
>
>>
>> There's no issues with:
>> ${DESTDIR}${DATADIR}
>> vs:
>> ${DESTDIR}/${DATADIR}
>> ?
>>
>> DESTDIR will always end in '/' right?
>>
>
> All the *DIR variables which are installation directories must be
> absolute paths.
> This is now checked by the script.
>
> DESTDIR might be $HOME for example. It would be /home/matt/usr/local/bin
> for the bin directory.
> In the help text we had a '/' for clarity, I suppose.

Usually DESTDIR is empty (no trailing slash in that case).  Whatever
follows it should of course be an absolute path.

ymmm

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