cvs commit: src Makefile

[Garance A Drosihn]

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.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu