Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:56:34 +0200
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?

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