Installing/Distributing Binaries After Modular Build

[George McCollister]

I'm using build.sh to build the modular source tree. The wiki suggests 
setting the prefix to /tmp/modular. What did the author intend to be 
done after everything is built? Permanently running X from /tmp/modular 
doesn't seem acceptable. If I git the source tree to 
/home/georgem/X11R7.1 and build everything under my user, what is the 
suggested way of installing everything as root to a normal location? 
build.sh seems to create tar balls for each module, but they only 
include source. Is there a way to build binary tar balls (or packages) 
for each module that can be used to install to a different location or 
used on a different system. In my case I'm cross compiling X.org so it 
makes sense to build everything as my non-root user then transfer 
everything to the target system. Right now I'm just manually copying out 
the binaries and placing them at the same locations on the target 
/home/georgem/X11R7.1. I'd like to install everything in the proper 
locations (/usr). Do I need to use fakeroot or something similar to 
trick the build scripts into thinking they are building/install with 
prefix /usr when they actually are in /home/georgem/X11R7.1?

It was very easy to do this with the monolithic tree (make install 
DESTDIR=<install_target_dir>).

Any tips would be appreciated. It would probably be good to get this 
sort of information out on the Wiki.

Thanks,
George McCollister








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