From 104af1041599d9dc777f6b4385f520ff188470de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Wiese Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:03:21 +0200 Subject: doc: add documentation of DESTDIR usage in INSTALL and make help Document the newly introduced DESTDIR option. Signed-off-by: Christian Wiese Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann --- INSTALL | 8 ++++++++ Misc | 1 + 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 50bfdf5..eefac70 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ build and install the toolkit into prefixed path like: $ make PREFIX= $ make PREFIX= 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= DESTDIR= install + Thanks for maintaining netsniff-ng in your distribution. Further questions will be answered on the public mailing list. diff --git a/Misc b/Misc index 97fc8d1..c71767d 100644 --- a/Misc +++ b/Misc @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ help: $(Q)echo " DEBUG=1 / DISTRO=1 - Enable debugging / Build for distros" $(Q)echo " HARDENING=1 - Enable GCC hardening of executables" $(Q)echo " PREFIX=/path - Install path prefix" + $(Q)echo " DESTDIR=/path - Alternative install destination path" $(Q)echo " CROSS_COMPILE=/path-prefix - Kernel-like cross-compiling prefix" $(Q)echo " CROSS_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path - Library search path for cross-compiling" $(Q)echo " CC=cgcc - Use sparse compiler wrapper" -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf