[directfb-dev] Re: Cross-compilation and installation folder

[Michael Natterer <mitch@convergence.de>]

armin.gerritsen@philips.com writes:

> Hello all,
>
> As some constructive critisism, I would like to mention that DirectFB has
> one problem that makes it a bit harder top use in cross-compilation
> enviroments - which is in conflict with one of the initial targets, being a
> nice platform for embedded systems.
>
> The problem is that when you do a make install to some folder on your
> build-system, the folder in which the objects are places, are usuaully not
> the places, where the code will be placed on the target system.
>
> So when you have make install place everything in:
>
> /home/username/develop/DirectFB/install
>
> you cannot deploy to
>
> /usr/lib

Well you can, it's just a matter of reading docs:


./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
DESTDIR=/home/username/develop/DirectFB/install make install


and there you go ;)

ciao,
--mitch


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