Hello Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:10:43AM CEST: > explicitly specified DESTDIR as an absolute name. > > Can't a relative path be immediately converted to an absolute path by > `cd $arg && pwd` > ?
Sure, but that would turn out to be extremely cumbersome to write in a set of Makefile rules. Let alone the fact that I have yet to see one recursive Makefile setup where the lower level is called with $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) DESTDIR=../$(DESTDIR) or $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS) DESTDIR=`cd $(DESTDIR) && pwd` So really this patch clarifies existing practice. Cheers, Ralf
