DESTDIR not supported

[Craig Treleaven]

At 5:54 PM -0500 3/30/12, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On Mar 30, 2012, at 15:45, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>
>>  Well, it's been an interesting exercise getting this far and now I 
>>find out that MythTV doesn't support DESTDIR.  Is there a standard 
>>approach to handling this problem?  (Myth's configure is >5,000 
>>lines; I'm concerned about trying to path it.)
>
>The MacPorts defailt is:
>
>destroot.destdir DESTDIR=${destroot}
>
>The standard is for build systems to support DESTDIR; if it doesn't, 
>all bets are off.
>
>Most build systems still support a way to specify where to install 
>things, for example using a PREFIX or prefix variable. If so, you 
>can tell MacPorts something like:
>
>destroot.destdir PREFIX=${destroot}${prefix}
>
>If the build system's install target is too confused to do even that 
>properly, then you can throw it away and write your own destroot 
>block and do everything yourself, as Jeremy said. But I would 
>consider that a last resort.

Thanks, yes, PREFIX is supported.  I'll give that a go.

Craig