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From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
Subject: Re: bin/2493: make $DESTDIR work
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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