Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc

[John Marino <marino%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 11/12/2011 1:47 AM, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 01:30:02AM +0100, John Marino wrote:
>   >  >   >   The *.a and *.so files were installed to .destdir.
>   >  >   >   Whether or not they should have been is a different discussion.
>   >  >   >   The PLIST reflects the files that are getting installed.
>   >  >   >
>   >  >   >   If this is "bogus" then the install script of vlc needs to be 
> tweaked.
>   >  >
>   >  >No, tinderbox needs to be fixed -- the PLIST contains only the libtool
>   >  >turd and the rest is inferred from it.
>   >
>   >  Please clarify this -
>   >  Are you saying that the files were installed to destdir, but
>   >  shouldn't be on the PLIST?
>
> Yes.

Geez.  I understood that destdir was a staging area, and it was safely 
equivalent to installing directly to $LOCALBASE.  Now it sounds like a 
work area that you cherrypick what you want via PLIST.  That means 
NetBSD could be installing these .la files there (not saying that it is, 
only that it might be happening) but they get ignored due to an 
incomplete PLIST.

now is this sloppy destdir situation rare, and vlc is just an 
unfortunate example or is this pretty common?
John