HEADS-UP: DESTDIR support committed to Mk/

[Andrey Chernov]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:49:11AM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:08:09PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
> >  
> >>I am pleased to announce, that portmgr committed my patch for ports 
> >>infrastructure DESTDIR support today. Note that this support is only for 
> >>the infrastructure, ports may or may not respect the DESTDIR macro, so 
> >>    
> >
> >Having read the wiki, please let me ask a couple of questions to
> >make sure there is consensus on what needs to be done to make all
> >ports DESTDIR happy.
> >
> >- All ports Makefiles should be checked for installs into PREFIX,
> >  and replaced by TARGETDIR (or DESTDIR/PREFIX)
> >  
> Yes, TARGETDIR resolves to DESTDIR/PREFIX, which should be the final 
> destination. In many ports we have a do-install or post-install target 
> with something like:
> 
> @${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/foo ${PREFIX}/bin
> 
> This is definitely not good, since it will install to ${PREFIX} even if 
> you set DESTDIR, so this needs a s/${PREFIX}/${TARGETDIR}/.

It will be much better to not change that in almost in every port, but 
change meaning of PREFIX instead:

PREFIX == DESTDIR/DESTPREFIX

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