[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:34, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which breaks things that bake in the install directory name. And some
> packages have a workaround
> and some don't, which is again a less than robust way to operate and I
> think will create more headaches
> than it solves.
>

Every package that has ever been packaged for a distro has been shoehorned
into this model. There are ways to trick actively hostile packages. DESTDIR
is available for most packages, especially those that hard-code the
destination directory. This is a problem that so many other people have
solved that it's foolish to say it's unworkable.
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