[ On Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 16:46:00 (-0500), Todd Vierling wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: cleaning out pkg between each bulk build? (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/graphics/pgraf)
>
> That cheeky point aside, I've made it my own personal policy to do
> 
>     ${INSTALL_*} foo ${PREFIX}/path/to/bar/
> 
> with that trailing slash, in an attempt to keep this case from occurring.

Keep in mind that on some types of systems on which pkgsrc is expected
to work a trailing slash (or more) at the OS level isn't "special" --
it's logically equivalent to a NUL byte in fact.  I.e. your trick
depends entirely on how whatever ${INSTALL_*} tool it is interprets the
pathname.

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