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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't cache DESTDIR in perl/perl.mak.
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:01:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071212180050.GA18980@untitled> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vodcyl5dy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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

-- 
Eric Wong

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-12 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-10  9:31 [PATCH] Don't cache DESTDIR in perl/perl.mak Gerrit Pape
2007-12-10 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-12 18:01   ` Eric Wong [this message]
2007-12-12 20:02     ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-18 14:25       ` Gerrit Pape

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