[Rd] How to make install DESTDIR=

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 November 2005 at 22:52, R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
| I tried to do make install DESTDIR=$PKGDIR. But this does not work. What 
| is the alternative? I need to do this to create Slackware package.

I think you want

	make prefix=$PKGDIR install

as the documentation in R-admin states rather clearly in several places.

Hth, Dirk

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