HEADS-UP: DESTDIR support committed to Mk/

[Sergey Matveychuk]

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)

Sure.

> 
> - All Makefiles in the workdir should install the DESTDIR/PREFIX,
>   so their configure options should be... --prefix? Not really,
>   because the datafiles of the program itself are to be found at
>   PREFIX, not DESTDIR/PREFIX. Any idea how to resolve this?

AFAIK modern gnu tools (e.g. configure) respect DESTDIR variable. But
I'm sure many software even using the tools will not do right things.

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