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On 08/23/2015 12:50 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
<snip>
> Regarding autotools vs. scons, so far as I'm concerned the whole project
> could just switch, but Peter is right and it would be hugely worthwhile to
> support the most common parts of the autoconf interface (--prefix is 90%
> of it really :).
IMO, If --prefix is 90% then DESTDIR support, or its equivalent, is 
95%.  Repackaging for a particular distro heavily relies on DESTDIR.  In 
my experience, it has been a pita compiling programs that do not support 
DESTDIR, into an installation package .
Girvin Herr

<snip>
  Britton