cvs commit: src Makefile

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Sat Jul 17 21:54:37 PDT 2004


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.

This also demonstrates that the people who scream the loudest that
hey know what they're doing very often do not.

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