[MacPorts] #46029: port submission: qtchooser

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#46029: port submission: qtchooser
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  Reporter:  rjvbertin@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  submission   |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:  2.3.3
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:  qtchooser    |
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Comment (by larryv@…):

 Replying to [comment:12 rjvbertin@…]:
 > In any case I'll first contact the author to see if I'm even following
 > the official way of building his tool, and if he'd be open to
 > incorporating certain changes like the hardcoded prefix in source
 > code.

 Didn’t you say that it uses `INSTALL_ROOT`? Or is that not used for
 staging installs, and I’m misunderstanding the whole thing? I don’t know
 anything about Qt.

 > BTW, the Makefile does use the keyword prefix to designate the final
 > install location; isn't there a way comparable to `destroot.destdir`
 > to have make called with the correct parameter(s)??

 Yes. It’s `destroot.destdir`. I don’t think you are understanding how the
 destroot command is constructed.

 Roughly speaking, the command that is executed for the destroot phase is
 “`${destroot.cmd} ${destroot.pre_args} ${destroot.args}
 ${destroot.post_args}`”. The default value of `destroot.pre_args` is
 “`${destroot.destdir}`”, which itself defaults to “`DESTDIR=${destroot}`”.
 So the correct way to provide the destroot command with an argument that
 changes the way it installs to the destroot is by using
 `destroot.destdir`.

 As Daniel suggested on macports-users, you could outright set
 `destroot.destdir` to “`INSTALL_ROOT=${destroot}`”, in lieu of my
 suggestion. Unless `INSTALL_ROOT` doesn’t actually represent a staging
 area.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46029#comment:14>
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