list of installed files during "make install"

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Mon Oct 6 06:54:51 UTC 2008


P Kapat wrote:
> When installing a package from source, we do "make install". Is there
> anyway to get the list of files that "make install" is going to
> install before actually installing them. This is not a
> kubuntu-specific issue, but I guess someone will know some trick!

If you don't get a better answer: Have a look at checkinstall (from the 
package with the same name). It is a bash script which creates a .deb 
package from your "make install" command. Therefore it should find out 
which files were created by the "make install" command.


Nils




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