DESTDIR installs in LFS

 I'm reworking my own buildscripts to get better logging of what was
installed.  For some time, my attempts to use 'find ... -newer' have
been giving me dubious results : not only omitting files,
particularly headers, which were installed with old dates, but also
repeating files from the previous package.  At one time I altered my
scripts to cope with what was being recorded in error (sleep after
touching hte marker), but although that seemed to work for a little
while, the problem soon resurfaced and it looks as if that approach
is a loser's game.

 So, I decided to try DESTDIR and friends.  I've added su-tools from
old coreutils to the end of chapter 5. In chapter 6 I'm building as
root and then doing a DESTDIR install as someone else (lfs) to ensure
that DESTDIR will be respected), but keep hitting EPERM problems.
Should I just build as a regular user, then chown the tree to root
before installing (i.e. deviate even further from the BOOK) ?

 My current feeling is that trying to log what gets installed might
not be worth the effort.  For the moment, I've given up on
install_root in chapter 6 glibc - worked fine in chapter 5, but
fails in chapter 6 with
../o-iterator.mk:9: *** empty variable name.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [locale/subdir_lib] Error 2
make: *** [install] Error 2

 Might be me, or might be a bad patchset for bash, or a glibc
problem - I've given up on that part for the moment so that I can
see what else breaks, and I'm now at the "well pissed off" stage.

 Anyone got any words of encouragement, or should I just write this
off ?  At least in BLFS the packages are, in the book, built as a
user, even though some don't respect DESTDIR and at least one still
needs root permissions during a DESTDIR install for chown or similar.

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