Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:51:23 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2493: make $DESTDIR work Message-ID: <21415.853307483@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:40:02 PST." <199701150440.UAA04014@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> I believe that whether or not ${DESTDIR} was 'guaranteed' to do what i
> want (allow you to do a make world without overwritting your running
> system), 90% of the Makefiles are coded so you can do just that. The
> changes that i submitted take you to between 95-99% of the way there and
> *should not* break anything.
I dunno, sounds convincing to me, Joerg. ;-)
How much testing have you done with this, Mark? When you say *should
not* is this from long-standing experience and much comparative
testing of binaries (run mtree over tree A, then over tree B, compare
results) or is this more of an engineer's standard "*I hope it won't*"
:-)
If it's the former, I certainly don't see a problem. I agree that
there's no reason NOT to make DESTDIR a more capable instrument
if it doesn't break any existing functionality.
Jordan
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