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On 22/11/2013 14:17, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:02:28PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> On 19/11/2013 18:44, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> The issue is that BSD make (in stable/10) passes "set -e" to the shell
>> by default.
>>
>> I submitted the details and a fix:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=184170
> 
> Hmm, even if this is so, I wonder if there would not be another funny
> problem later: for ports that actually use staging, ...

I tested the fix with a port that I just converted to staging. No
problems there. The staging happens on the host system, but the resulting
package is correctly installed into DESTDIR.


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