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| author | Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com> | 2015-06-12 13:15:57 -0600 |
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| committer | Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com> | 2015-06-12 13:15:57 -0600 |
| commit | a82a3db95077c8343b988a6f1b03adea3d40f6d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 16f417d70fc3431e77901a0535107bd8026bffd9 /manual | |
| parent | 9714012ca015f1f6763f66bd74d6f3f9e1512b36 (diff) | |
Attempting to install glibc configured with --prefix=/usr into
a non-standard directory specified by the prefix make variable
fails with an error. Since this is an unsupported use case,
this change makes make install fail early and with a descriptive
error message when either the prefix or the exec_prefix make
variable is overridden on the command line.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/install.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 42ee467463..63c41b0b8d 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -333,12 +333,14 @@ headers, but nothing else. If you do this, you will need to restore any headers from libraries other than @theglibc{} yourself after installing the library. -You can install @theglibc{} somewhere other than where you configured it to go -by setting the @code{install_root} variable on the command line for -@samp{make install}. The value of this variable is prepended to all the -paths for installation. This is useful when setting up a chroot -environment or preparing a binary distribution. The directory should be -specified with an absolute file name. +You can install @theglibc{} somewhere other than where you configured +it to go by setting the @code{DESTDIR} GNU standard make variable on +the command line for @samp{make install}. The value of this variable +is prepended to all the paths for installation. This is useful when +setting up a chroot environment or preparing a binary distribution. +The directory should be specified with an absolute file name. Installing +with the @code{prefix} and @code{exec_prefix} GNU standard make variables +set is not supported. @Theglibc{} includes a daemon called @code{nscd}, which you may or may not want to run. @code{nscd} caches name service lookups; it |