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Re: [PATCH] Don't cache DESTDIR in perl/perl.mak.

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Dec 12, 2007, 18:01 UTC
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<20071212180050.GA18980@untitled>
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Hmph.  That's reverting this:
> 
> commit 4c5cf8c44ce06a79da5bafd4a92e6d6f598cea2e
> Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Date:   Sun Aug 13 04:13:25 2006 -0700
> 
>     pass DESTDIR to the generated perl/Makefile
>     
>     Makes life for binary packagers easier, as the Perl modules will
>     be installed inside DESTDIR.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> 
> Eric, care to comment?

I used to make a statically linked binary package for working on an ancient box that didn't have a lot of libraries I wanted, and I probably just called `make install' into DESTDIR as a single step without calling `make' alone without DESTDIR argument, or I had DESTDIR set in config.mak

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Eric Wong
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Message 3 of 5 in “Don't cache DESTDIR in perl/perl.mak.”
  1. Don't cache DESTDIR in perl/perl.mak.Gerrit Pape, Dec 10, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2007
  3. Eric WongDec 12, 2007
  4. Pierre HabouzitDec 12, 2007
  5. Gerrit PapeDec 18, 2007

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