Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2493: make $DESTDIR work Message-ID: <199701150440.UAA04014@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2493; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/2493: make $DESTDIR work
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:34:37 -0800 (PST)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:05:30 +0100
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
References: <199701141416.GAA21689@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
As mark thompson wrote:
> Enclosed is a set of diffs (mostly to makefiles) that make them respect
> $DESTDIR.
> -INCDIRS= -I/usr/include/rpcsvc
> +INCDIRS= -I${DESTDIR}/usr/include/rpcsvc
(etc.)
I think ${DESTDIR} is only guaranteed to what its name says: a
destination directory. This will only work to _install_ an already
compiled tree (and this feature is heavily relied on during the
release build process).
I'm not sure what other people think, but i'm of the opinion that your
patches try to extend the idea of ${DESTDIR}.
I believe that whether or not ${DESTDIR} was 'guaranteed' to do what i
want (allow you to do a make world without overwritting your running
system), 90% of the Makefiles are coded so you can do just that. The
changes that i submitted take you to between 95-99% of the way there and
*should not* break anything.
If these changes are too high a risk to put into the sources, fine with
me. I did them for my own purposes, and am happy just to offer the
results back as a contribution.
-mark
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