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. JonReceived on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 07:26:27 UTC
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