Running "DESTDIR=/usr/local make install" places files unexpectedly.

[robertdebock]

When I run "DESTDIR=/usr/local make install" the files are places in unexpected places.

What I've done:

git clone https://github.com/dm-vdo/vdo.git
cd vdo
make
DESTDIR=/usr/local make install

What I see in /usr/local:

COPYING
examples
man8
statistics
utils
vdo
vdodumpconfig
vdoforcerebuild
vdoformat
vdomgmnt
vdoprepareupgrade
vdoreadonly
vdo.service
vdostats

If I conclude the list above, it contains:

• binaries not in ./bin or ./sbin
• man pages
• examples
• services not in /usr/lib/systemd/system/
• COPYING

Am I using "make" incorrectly?

BTW: I can help make an RPM out of this software if you'd like that.

[rhawalsh]

Hi. You should be calling it as 'make install DESTDIR=/usr/local'.

Thanks for the offer of assistance with RPMs. We already have a set of RPMs. We will work on posting the specfiles into these repositories.

Our call in the spec is as follows:

 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT bindir=%{_bindir} \
   defaultdocdir=%{_defaultdocdir} name=%{name} \
   python_sitelib=%{python_sitelib} mandir=%{_mandir} \
   unitdir=%{_unitdir}

[corwin]

I've just merged a new update to the project which should hopefully fix this build issue. Please let me know if there are still problems.

Thanks,

corwin