On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

:   | > good call, but not exactly the correct fix. ;-)  your patch effectively
:   | > made check_DESTDIR a no-op, because DESTDIR would have been defined
:   | > beforehand.
:   |
:   | Bugger! (Actually, why is DESTDIR?= needed? Looks like sticking plaster
:   | from a distance..)
:
: Not sure exactly; maybe Todd can answer that one.

The reason it exists is to *guarantee* that DESTDIR is set on a build where
USETOOLS=yes.  There's many side effects to setting DESTDIR, not the least
of which is adding -nostdinc -isystem and so forth, and these side effects
are required in order to build with USETOOLS=yes (even if your DESTDIR would
be an empty string, i.e. "build to /").

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