Re: PATCH: honour DESTDIR

[Miles Bader]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> What's the point of a feature you can't rely on?  It seems silly.

It's certainly better to have an `optional standard' than none at all,
because it means that packages that _do_ implement it, will do so in the
same way (rather than having a bunch of slightly different solutions).

> I suppose we could help enforce DESTDIR by checking it during distcheck.

What do you mean `enforce DESTDIR'?

-Miles
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