Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:00:29 +0200 From: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-stable@webteckies.org> To: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld tries to write to DESTDIR? Message-ID: <200309190000.38836.freebsd-stable@webteckies.org> In-Reply-To: <200309180159.03917.mupi@mknet.org> References: <XFMail.20030917181921.jdp@polstra.com> <200309180159.03917.mupi@mknet.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday 18 September 2003 09:58, Mike Porter wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:19 pm, John Polstra wrote: > > On 18-Sep-2003 Doug White 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. Check any automake setup: DESTDIR is the install prefix. Of course one is free deviate from this GNU autotools naming convention. However - IMO it doesn't serve any purpose during buildworld, as you expect to set the build location with MAKEOBJDIR (which also sounds like the location to place built files). -- Melvyn ======================================================= FreeBSD ghost.lan.webteckies.org 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #5: Tue Sep 2 17:36:05 CEST 2003 root@ghost.lan.webteckies.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GHOST i386 ======================================================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/aisGOv9JNmfFN5URAp83AKCTxF0toA68hV7TX6W2nsFD/HaOxgCeLRxr xN9qj+3dE9MiFTw7FKek0Vo= =N/5r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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