What Do You Do If There's No Destdir Option? Options

[Capn_Fish]

How do you package an app up if "grep DESTDIR Makefile" returns nothing?

[danr]

How do you package an app up if "grep DESTDIR Makefile" returns nothing?

You could search the Makefile for 'prefix' or '/usr', and change to $PWD/ipkg/usr or something similar.

[Capn_Fish]

How do you package an app up if "grep DESTDIR Makefile" returns nothing?

You could search the Makefile for 'prefix' or '/usr', and change to $PWD/ipkg/usr or something similar.

Doesn't that lead to issues apon installation on the ipk?

[desertrat]

You could search the Makefile for 'prefix' or '/usr', and change to $PWD/ipkg/usr or something similar.

Doesn't that lead to issues apon installation on the ipk?

I think if you add the $PWD after have you done "make" and just before you do "make install" it should be OK? Otherwise find the "install" section of the Makefile and add DESTDIR manually. Eg here's one for zlib:

CODE

install: $(LIBS)
       -@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(exec_prefix) ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(exec_prefix); fi
       -@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)  ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); fi
       -@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)      ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); fi
       -@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(man3dir)     ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(man3dir); fi
       cp zlib.h zconf.h $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)
       chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/zlib.h $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/zconf.h
       cp $(LIBS) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
       cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); chmod 755 $(LIBS)
       -@(cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); $(RANLIB) libz.a || true) >/dev/null 2>&1
       cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); if test -f $(SHAREDLIBV); then \
         rm -f $(SHAREDLIB) $(SHAREDLIBM); \
         ln -s $(SHAREDLIBV) $(SHAREDLIB); \
         ln -s $(SHAREDLIBV) $(SHAREDLIBM); \
         (ldconfig || true)  >/dev/null 2>&1; \
       fi
       cp zlib.3 $(DESTDIR)$(man3dir)
       chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(man3dir)/zlib.3

Do I need to edit all of the makefiles

Normally you should only need to edit main Makefile, the ones in subdirectories usually defer "install" to that main Makefile. In fact I don't recall any application that required editing makefiles in the subdirectories.