CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE
Jon Noack
noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Wed Jul 14 02:26:27 PDT 2004
On 07/14/04 03:56, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 04:24, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> At 4:22 PM -0700 7/13/04, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>>> a) how about if we print a warning and exit if DESTDIR is
>>>> not defined? Are there "important" uses of `make world'
>>>> which do not use DESTDIR?
>>>
>>> My thoughts exactly. See attached patch.
>>
>> Actually, the target should end with some kind of failure, in case
>> someone has a script that does:
>> make world && do-next-thing
>
> Why should make world DESTDIR=/my/jail && cd etc && make distribution
> DESTDIR=/my/jail fail?
It won't fail. If you read the patch and thread a bit more closely
you'll note that the warning and failure happen only if DESTDIR is not
defined. As you are defining DESTDIR, you won't see any change in
behavior/output.
Jon
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