From 104af1041599d9dc777f6b4385f520ff188470de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org>
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 <chris@opensde.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
---
 INSTALL | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'INSTALL')

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=<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.
 
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