buildworld tries to write to DESTDIR?

John Polstra jdp at polstra.com
Thu Sep 18 08:28:31 PDT 2003


On 18-Sep-2003 Mike Porter wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:19 pm, John Polstra wrote:
> 
>> It always used to work to set DESTDIR for both the buildworld and the
>> installworld.  Shouldn't it still?  Personally, I think it is worthy
>> of a PR.
> 
> Maybe its just me, but DESTDIR sounds like (and according to the error 
> message, appears to act like) the location to place built files in a 
> buildworld context.  In looking through /usr/src/Makefile and 
> /usr/src/Makefile.inc1, DESTDIR is used in this manner.  As near as I can 
> tell (granted my Makefile skills aren't that great) I don't see anywhere in 
> the installworld target that makes use of DESTDIR (making it irrelevant 
> whether it is set or not for installworld).

grep DESTDIR /usr/src/share/mk/*.mk

John


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