list of installed files during "make install"

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 6 12:56:25 UTC 2008


Nils Kassube wrote:

> 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.

That was going to be my suggestion for the "better answer" :-)
-- 
derek





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