Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:32:06PM -0500, John Darrow wrote:
> > In article <19990405210313.D28342@jocelyn.rhein.de> you write:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >does make install in xsrc obey the NetBSD "DESTDIR" semantics?
> > >
> > >	-is
> > 
> > I don't believe it does.  This was one of the many things I addressed in
> > pr misc/7089, which has been sitting open for about a month now.
> 
> [[ stuff deleted ]]
> 
> However, I'll try to extract your xsrc DESTDIR part and convince releng to
> accept it.

I've just built the pmax X sets, and DESTDIR was honored as far as
installation only.  Includes and libraries came from the normal places.

A while ago, Luke Mewburn hacked up BSD-style makefiles for XFree86 that
worked like a charm.  Whether or not that's maintainable over the long
term is another question :-)

Simon.