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On 18/11/2013 20:28, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
>> On 18/11/2013 04:10, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
>>>> # make DESTDIR=/root/tmpdest install
>>>> ===>  Creating some important subdirectories
>>>
>>> Are you sure you don't mean "make PREFIX=/root/tmpdest/" ?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> --
> 
> I would expect DESTDIR=/some/path just work for any port. Last commit
> to bsd.destdir was over a year ago so either it has been broken for a
> long time or some other more recent commit has broken it.

/root/tmpdest is a complete FreeBSD chroot (I did a
"make installworld distribution DESTDIR=/root/tmpdest" right beforehand).

I tried several ports, they all exhibit the same failure.


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