Re: DESTDIR bulk build?

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> DESTDIR exists for more than year, but only about 30% of all packages
> supports it (PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT is in Makefile).  As you may know
> distbb supports DESTDIR bulk builds.  In order to make this support
> better, I can periodically run bulk builds under Linux (if anybody
> need it). Under Linux because I have no power machine running NetBSD,
> but I don't think this is a problem.
>
> How about DESTDIR hackaton?

        An excellent idea. I'd like to suggest two other changes to
        encourage more PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT entries in packages:

        a) Add support for PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT= none
        b) Make pkglint display a warning if a package does not have
           a PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT= entry

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