HEADS-UP: DESTDIR support committed to Mk/

[Erwin Lansing]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:39:15AM +0400, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am pleased to announce, that portmgr committed my patch for ports
> > infrastructure DESTDIR support today. Note that this support is only for
> 
> Thanks for your work. It's highly appreciated.
> The feature was discussed for years but no real progress had been done.
> 
> But a little number of ports will respect DESTDIR out of box. Some ports
> can be easily converted, for some ports it will be a hard work and a few
> ports will never be done.
> 
> So, a question still arise: how could we warn user a port does not
> respect DESTDIR if he've defined it?
> 
> E.g. we could use DESTDIR_READY=yes in a port Makefile if it's tested
> with DESTDIR.
> 
I prefer to turn that logic around, but a run on pointyhat will have to
confirm how the number of working and non-working ports are. I am hoping
that most ports just DTRT, so we can mark the rest NO_DESTDIR or
similar. But yes, such a mechanism has to be worked on.

-erwin
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