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Subject: Re: "make install" for subsequent machines?
In-Reply-To: <199610281940.UAA01386@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 28, 96 08:40:56 pm"
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:15:02 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com
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> As Harlan Stenn wrote:
> 
> > How can I "install" from a -current src and obj hierarchy on other
> > machines without having to recompile various bits?
> 
> Mount your remote machine (/ and /usr, i think) to some point, say
> /mnt and /mnt/usr.  Then run
> 
> 	make install DESTDIR=/mnt/
> 
> (The trailing slash might be important, i'm not sure.)

The trailing slash is redundant and may cause some strange looking
log output, and possibly (though I think I fixed all of them long
long ago since DESTDIR should not be part of a symbolic link) very
strange symbolic links.

Arguable things should be fixed so that DESTDIR is always defined,
and defaults to ``/'', and that a trailing slash be required and
looked for, with an error return if missing.

Then the *DIR stuff (ie, BINDIR, MANDIR) should have the leading
slash rip out.  This change would remove a lot of ``.if defined DESTDIR''
type of stuff in the src tree.


This type of change would again, IMHO, need agreement from all of
the *BSD's variants out there to minimize confusion.

-- 
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