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Re: make-stds: DESTDIR should be absolute
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: make-stds: DESTDIR should be absolute |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:16:14 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hello Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:10:43AM CEST:
> explicitly specified DESTDIR as an absolute name.
>
> Can't a relative path be immediately converted to an absolute path by
> `cd $arg && pwd`
> ?
Sure, but that would turn out to be extremely cumbersome to write in a
set of Makefile rules. Let alone the fact that I have yet to see one
recursive Makefile setup where the lower level is called with
$(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) DESTDIR=../$(DESTDIR)
or
$(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) DESTDIR=`cd $(DESTDIR) && pwd`
So really this patch clarifies existing practice.
Cheers,
Ralf