On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 17:55, Danilo G. Baio <db...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 06:12:32PM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On 13 June 2018 at 05:21, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: > > > Steps to reproduce: > > > > > > rm -rf /srv/www/devbox/ > > > mkdir /srv/www/devbox/ > > > env DESTDIR=/srv/www/devbox/docs/docs make -s all install > > > > > > Expected behavior: no files are written to outside of > > > /srv/www/devbox/docs/docs > > > Actual behavior: /srv/www/devbox/articles and /srv/www/devbox/books exist > > > > > > Why is this? Is there some way to avoid this? > > > > anyone? This is particularly annoying when testing subsets of > > documentation. Is there any variable to set that will work similarly > > to MAKEOBJIRPREFIX from src? > > I'd like to run "make install" from a doc directory and have it > > install to the "expected" place so that browsing documentation from > > the webserver still works. > > > You should try DOCDIR instead of DESTDIR. > It will create all the structure, see this:
Thank you! That saved me hours of frustration. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
