> > It seems it doesn't do quite what you want, well, I agree with you that it
> > would be nice to have what you want.  But I'm not prepared to call DESTDIR 
> > useless because of that.
> 
> I didn't say it was useless, but it's currently an agonizingly-close-to-100%
> (call it 98%) solution.

Worse than that, actually, in my opinion, is the fact that its
implementation is broken.

Non-BSD Makefiles that define  "DESTDIR" can be royally screwed by the
special processing that that causes, because some of it is done in
sys.mk.   See my recent PR on the subject.  8-)


chris