$DISTDIR support incomplete

[leahneukirchen]

It seems most parts of rakudo-star support a $DISTDIR for staged installs (e.g. rakudo installs fine there), but the modules-install step expects rakudo to be running from the final prefix already, and I found no way to work around this easily.

Would it be possible to generate wrappers which run rakudo from the build directory, and use these to build and install the modules, such that $DISTDIR is only written to with the ready built things?

It would greatly simplify packaging rakudo-star for distributions (I'm updating the packages for Void Linux: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/pull/3536).

[Tyil]

Is this still an issue in the current iteration of Rakudo Star? The Bash script variant allows both installation steps to be performed seperately, and using the -p <destination> option you can select which $DISTDIR to use, in case you have multiple Rakudo Star installations.