Re: DESTDIR vs `make install exec_prefix='

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2009-04-18 22:45, John Calcote wrote:
>>>Oh, you mean if the value of the *variable* is empty (following the
>>>thread), not the directory itself.  D'oh, sorry, that should have been
>>>obvious to me from context.  Never mind.  :)
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>>No, I also thought of empty directories. Quote from above: "respective
>>installation directory is empty.". But the puzzling thing was that
>>when using DESTDIR=$foo, $foo would normally be empty anyways
>>(in automated build systems like lbuild/koji/etc.)
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>I'm sure he meant "...respective installation directory *variable* is
>empty.". Doing anything based on whether the directory itself was empty is
>meaningless,

Sure, but it was still a confusing read for too many parties ;-)