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Re: gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR


From: John Darrington
Subject: Re: gnu-build-system should set DESTDIR
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:53:50 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:09:10PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
     
     > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:56:49PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     >      
     >      We???re talking about GNOME makefiles only, I think.  The snippet 
below is
     >      clearly a hack IMO.
     >
     > Two non-gnome packages which also do this include gnubik and pspp
     
     They do what?  Their recipes don???t fiddle with DESTDIR, do they?
     
No.  No package should ever change the value of DESTDIR.

They simply update the icon cache iff $DESTDIR = ""  

J'

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