Re: DESTDIR=full?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:48:08PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:12:44AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > (b) You would have to change all programs to not use cp, pax and random
> > other tools for installing. Installation would also fail for anything
> > doing direct system calls (e.g. from python interpreters).
> 
> You could preload a library which intercepts all system calls and
> records them in the metalog.

Doesn't work e.g. on DragonFly where /bin is linked statically.
In general this is not really portable.

Joerg