buildworld tries to write to DESTDIR?

[Mike Porter]

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On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:19 pm, John Polstra wrote:
> On 18-Sep-2003 Doug White wrote:

> It always used to work to set DESTDIR for both the buildworld and the
> installworld.  Shouldn't it still?  Personally, I think it is worthy
> of a PR.
>

Maybe its just me, but DESTDIR sounds like (and according to the error 
message, appears to act like) the location to place built files in a 
buildworld context.  In looking through /usr/src/Makefile and 
/usr/src/Makefile.inc1, DESTDIR is used in this manner.  As near as I can 
tell (granted my Makefile skills aren't that great) I don't see anywhere in 
the installworld target that makes use of DESTDIR (making it irrelevant 
whether it is set or not for installworld).  Also according to Makefile.inc1, 
you run installworld (more accurately 'reinstall') on the NFS *client*, 
becuase installworld always wants to install from /  (again, I could be 
missing something, if so, please tell me, I want to know; I know I'm not 
delving very deep into the various subdirectory make files)

In any case, the original error may NOT be worthy of a PR, since the original 
post admits that DESTDIR doesn't exist, being an NFS mount, at the time of 
buildworld.  (If the directory exists, and failed, that *would* be worthy of 
a PR.)

mike
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