[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Build Darwin dynamic/shared libraries

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:05:59AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >> 4) make the vhooks Mach-O bundles rather than libraries.
> > >> 5) add support for a ${DESTDIR} environment variable to force
> > >> installation into another path than the root. I found it quite useful.
> > >
> > > we have bindir, libdir, mandir and prefix isnt that enough?
> >
> > I'm afraid not, since $libdir gets hard-coded into the libraries. The
> 
> then why not add another variable for that hardcoded dir? hardcoded_libdir or
> so? 
> 
> putting DESTDIR before every occurance of libdir, bindir and mandir is not 
> acceptable

the DESTDIR thing is pretty standard, and used by almost all
auto-package-generating systems. i would be in favor of it. after all
it only affects make install..

rich