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[UDUNITS #CYB-169517]: UDUNITS does not support DESTDIR properly

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  • Subject: [UDUNITS #CYB-169517]: UDUNITS does not support DESTDIR properly
  • Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:49:09 -0600
Rodrigo,

> I'd like to report the following BUG:
> 
> Trying to create an udunits-1.12.9 RPM is impossible as your source code
> does not support the DESTDIR flag properly.
> 
> Please refer to http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
> for more details.

Yeah, the UDUNITS-1 package predates all that GNU installation stuff.

I added support for the DESTDIR macro and made a new release, which is 
available at <ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/udunits/udunits-1.12.11.tar.gz>.

It checked-out here, but let me know if you discover otherwise.

> Cheers,
> 
> Rodrigo López
> Senior Systems Engineer
> ForwardIT
> www.forwardit.com.au
> Ph:    02 6162 0070
> Fax:  02 6162 0079

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: CYB-169517
Department: Support UDUNITS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed