Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:12:45 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <p06110416bd1fb620f6c3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040718045434.GA4487@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200407180119.i6I1JXbc068263@repoman.freebsd.org> <p06110413bd1fa05bdc86@[128.113.24.47]> <20040718045434.GA4487@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net>
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At 9:54 PM -0700 7/17/04, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:37:43PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 1:19 AM +0000 7/18/04, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > >> > Modified files: >> > . Makefile >> > Log: >> > Add an "out" to the now required BS of defining DESTDIR. >> >> How about something a little shorter and more descriptive of >> what it is controlling? Say, "ALLOW_PLAIN_MAKE_WORLD" instead >> of "I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING_THANKYOU_VERY_MUCH" > >Any such option is totally unnecessary because you only have to >add DESTDIR?=/ to /etc/make.conf to get the old behaviour back. For all I know, it might be that setting DESTDIR will trigger some other behavior that he is trying to avoid (perhaps something unique to his own setup). I don't mind an extra flag if that makes this change less painful for some situations, but I think we could pick a more sensible name for the flag. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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