make install DESTDIR

[aj]

On Aug 20, 4:39 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollybox.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 August 2010, it occurred to aj to exclaim:
>
> > I am trying to install python with make install DESTDIR=/home/blah
>
> >                 --prefix=/
>
> ...
>
> > creating /lib/python2.6
> > error: could not create '/lib/python2.6': Permission denied
> > make: *** [sharedinstall] Error 1
>
> Obviously, the flags you specified didn't have the effect you intended.
>
>   --prefix=$HOME
>
> should do the trick.

The whole point of DESTDIR is that it should be prepended to all
installed paths, but the binaries should not contain any references to
it.DESTDIR is commonly used by packagers, for example, to allow
installation without superuser privileges.