Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:28:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld tries to write to DESTDIR? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030918082824.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200309180159.03917.mupi@mknet.org>
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On 18-Sep-2003 Mike Porter wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:19 pm, John Polstra wrote: > >> It always used to work to set DESTDIR for both the buildworld and the >> installworld. Shouldn't it still? Personally, I think it is worthy >> of a PR. > > Maybe its just me, but DESTDIR sounds like (and according to the error > message, appears to act like) the location to place built files in a > buildworld context. In looking through /usr/src/Makefile and > /usr/src/Makefile.inc1, DESTDIR is used in this manner. As near as I can > tell (granted my Makefile skills aren't that great) I don't see anywhere in > the installworld target that makes use of DESTDIR (making it irrelevant > whether it is set or not for installworld). grep DESTDIR /usr/src/share/mk/*.mk John
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