[oe] base.bbclass: Why is `oe_runmake install` not the default for `do_install()`?

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> There's not a common enough way to make sure it tries to write to ${D}
> when we don't know what the build system is, other than someones Makefile.

Yeah, like Tom says -- with autoconf, we know we can use DESTDIR, but
there's no standard mechanism for custom make-based buildsystems, and
some don't have such a variable at all (until we patch them in).
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Christopher Larson
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