SConstruct: Add support for DESTDIR parameter about endless-sky HOT 3 CLOSED

Give 25f33f8 a try - that should support DESTDIR while remaining backward compatible with only using PREFIX, because DESTDIR defaults to empty.

However, that will still require both PREFIX and DESTDIR to be set at install time. So, that's still a bit different than the autotools methods where you have three separate steps, configure / make / make install, and where the prefix can be set in the configure step.

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I'm hoping to have a stable 0.8.0 release by the end of July. @akien-mga, if you get a chance in the next few weeks, could you test and see whether everything is working smoothly for building an RPM package? That way if it turns out I need to make changes to the build system, I can make them in time to incorporate them in the stable release. Thanks!

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@akien-mga, if you get a chance in the next few weeks, could you test and see whether everything is working smoothly for building an RPM package?

I've imported endless-sky in Mageia's current development version, and it works great: http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/endless-sky/current/SPECS/endless-sky.spec?view=markup
As you can see on the spec script, I didn't have to use anything unusual to get it to compile:
%scons just corresponds to scons -j<nb of CPU nodes> and %scons_install is scons install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}, so it all works great.

Closing as fixed :)

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