Re: Using the EPICS Build/Make system to build kernel modules for linux

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir@imca-cat.org>]

On 2/24/15 11:43 AM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> That said, my packaging experience leads me to strongly prefer build
> systems that work in "standard" ways, and don't for instance require
> in-tree builds for linking applications, which EPICS currently
> requires (modulo the packaging ninjitsu accomplished by the EPICS
> Debian packagers).

Hi, Jamie.

By this, do you mean you wish for DESTDIR [1] support?  If so, I
strongly agree that that would be a *big* improvement.  BTW, there was a
tech-talk mailing list thread in October 2014 that touched on this [2].

Regards,

Lewis

[1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
[2] http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2014/msg01500.php