something: DESTDIR is not a user settable variable

[Olivier Gautherot]

>>I'm hitting regularly the same problem with various ports that deinstall
>>properly during upgrades but won't reinstall. I had the case with firefox
>>this morning.
>>
>>The typical message is:
>>
>>    bash-2.05b$ sudo make install clean
>>    firefox-1.0.1.p_4: DESTDIR is not a user settable variable
>>    *** Error code 1
>>
>>Can anyone tell me where the message is coming from and how to
>>overcome it? I've tried to grep "user settable" but did not find it...
>>
>>For what it's worth, here is my uname -a:
>>    FreeBSD ogautherot.og-lan.freesurf.fr 5.2.1-RELEASE
>>    FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul  5 19:32:44 CEST 2004
>>    root at ogautherot.og-lan.freesurf.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OG_CONF  i386
>>    
>>
>
>What's in your make.conf file?  [Not DESTDIR, is it?]
>
>  
>
Hi Gilbert!

No, it is not defined there. The funny bit in this story is that it does 
not always happen and the same package may work in one shell  and fail 
in another one... Weird...

I guess I'll wait for the problem to occur again, run a printenv and 
compare it with a shell that does work.

Thanks for the tip anyway!

Cheers
    Olivier