<html>
    <head>
      <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" />
    </head>
    <body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:akira@tagoh.org" title="Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>"> <span class="fn">Akira TAGOH</span></a>
</span> changed
              <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - /opt/bin/make install DESTDIR=/xxx/yyy does not work solely in DESTDIR but also references ${prefix} without ${DESTDIR}"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92406">bug 92406</a>
          <br>
             <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
          <tr>
            <th>What</th>
            <th>Removed</th>
            <th>Added</th>
          </tr>

         <tr>
           <td style="text-align:right;">Status</td>
           <td>NEW
           </td>
           <td>RESOLVED
           </td>
         </tr>

         <tr>
           <td style="text-align:right;">CC</td>
           <td>
                
           </td>
           <td>akira@tagoh.org
           </td>
         </tr>

         <tr>
           <td style="text-align:right;">Resolution</td>
           <td>---
           </td>
           <td>NOTABUG
           </td>
         </tr></table>
      <p>
        <div>
            <b><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - /opt/bin/make install DESTDIR=/xxx/yyy does not work solely in DESTDIR but also references ${prefix} without ${DESTDIR}"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92406#c1">Comment # 1</a>
              on <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - /opt/bin/make install DESTDIR=/xxx/yyy does not work solely in DESTDIR but also references ${prefix} without ${DESTDIR}"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92406">bug 92406</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:akira@tagoh.org" title="Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>"> <span class="fn">Akira TAGOH</span></a>
</span></b>
        <pre>You can't validate symlinks at the build time because DESTDIR isn't supposed to
be. and DESTDIR is used as a prefix path how it looks at the installation time
for packaging. the point is DESTDIR is dropped from the real installed path. so
checking that at the build time in the sense of packaging really makes no
sense.

So the answer for your question is, because we use a symlink to enable/disable
a configuration file easily for system-wide and user-specific, and keep
consistency on changes. if you copy some of them and it is changed in upstream,
you'll miss it then. or if doubt, you'll need to copy them every time on
upgrading.

fontconfig follows the general use of DESTDIR in autotools and no concerns on
packaging at this moment.</pre>
        </div>
      </p>
      <hr>
      <span>You are receiving this mail because:</span>
      
      <ul>
          <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li>
      </ul>
    </body>
</html>