[CS-FSLUG] `make install` in a fake root directory

[N. Thompson]

I figured out how to do it by reading through a spec file template Ark ships 
with the distribution, what I did was `make install 
DESTDIR="/home/arklinux/fakeroot/"` and that seemed to work.

Thanks :-) 

On November 12, 2004 06:49 pm, David Aikema wrote:
> Does the program in question have a ./configure script with a --prefix
> option that you can set? Alternately, you could manually edit the
> makefile to prevent any copying from taking place, and instead just
> spit out a list of filenames and destinations.
>
> You may also be able to use checkinstall, but set the install option
> there to false.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:39:55 -0600, N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > Prior to making an RPM I want to know what files it will install so I
> > have a better idea of how the make install script will work before going
> > ahead with building the RPM, once I've done this a few times I'm hoping
> > I'll have a better idea of how to do it.
>
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