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Subject: Re: Allow user install
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On 06/27/2012 03:14, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Eric van Gyzen<eric@vangyzen.net>  writes:
>> Tim's idea sounds great, and would cover several use-cases.
>> Specifically, it leaves the build artifacts in the usual places so
>> other, later builds can build against them, whereas writing the
>> artifacts directly to a tar file does not.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  The "build artifacts" would still be in the
> obj tree.

But they would be in a different directory layout than an installed 
FreeBSD system.  It would be convenient to tell other builds to look for 
headers and libraries in the usual paths, but rooted in $DESTDIR, not on 
the build host.

Eric