From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>,
WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tools: remove DESTDIR for autodetection
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 22:06:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9p5E57NiVtdYDacViuDJhtFOuG5pWq1hhHJQbd5aTT0LA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8b6k07f.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net>
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> why are we checking either place? It's entirely possible that my
> dedicated build farm doesn't have any bash completion mechanisms
> installed, even if my development system does.
Yes, the concept of auto-detection is "broken". But it's useful as a
default, for people doing `make && make install` on their dev
machines. Packagers should always set these types of flags explicitly,
as with autotools.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-04 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 18:50 distro packaging, makefiles, deps, systemd, new tools Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-04 20:14 ` [PATCH 1/1] tools: remove DESTDIR for autodetection Christian Hesse
2017-01-04 20:26 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-04 21:02 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-01-04 21:06 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2017-01-04 21:18 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-04 21:16 ` distro packaging, makefiles, deps, systemd, new tools Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-01-05 14:02 ` Dan Lüdtke
2017-01-06 23:01 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-01-11 16:46 ` Dan Lüdtke
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