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| author | Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org> | 2014-04-10 16:03:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-04-10 17:42:34 +0200 |
| commit | 104af1041599d9dc777f6b4385f520ff188470de (patch) | |
| tree | 9781b1892ccc0cde3c351303f1ec90c8735d464f /INSTALL | |
| parent | 049160cce62d02bd3b3f501368fc21eb2ca66dfa (diff) | |
doc: add documentation of DESTDIR usage in INSTALL and make help
Document the newly introduced DESTDIR option.
Signed-off-by: Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ build and install the toolkit into prefixed path like: $ make PREFIX=<path-prefix-for-package> $ make PREFIX=<path-prefix-for-package> install +Additionally to setting the PREFIX you can set DESTDIR if you want to install +the toolkit outside of your current root filesystem but into an alternative +path. This is particularly useful when cross-compiling because most likely +you want to install into a dedicated sandbox or into a mounted root filesystem +for the target architecture and not into the build hosts root filesystem. + + $ make PREFIX=<path-prefix-for-package> DESTDIR=<alternative-rootfs> install + Thanks for maintaining netsniff-ng in your distribution. Further questions will be answered on the public mailing list. |