On Saturday 2009-04-18 22:45, John Calcote wrote: >>>Oh, you mean if the value of the *variable* is empty (following the >>>thread), not the directory itself. D'oh, sorry, that should have been >>>obvious to me from context. Never mind. :) > > >>No, I also thought of empty directories. Quote from above: "respective >>installation directory is empty.". But the puzzling thing was that >>when using DESTDIR=$foo, $foo would normally be empty anyways >>(in automated build systems like lbuild/koji/etc.) > > >I'm sure he meant "...respective installation directory *variable* is >empty.". Doing anything based on whether the directory itself was empty is >meaningless,
Sure, but it was still a confusing read for too many parties ;-)