Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installation problems in non-standard directories

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:59:59PM -0500, Achilleas Anastasopoulos wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to install gnuradio in an environment where I do not have 
> root priviledges, so 
> everything has to go in my user space.
> 
> I went through the regular cycle using the ./configure 
> --prefix=/n/wellington/x/anastas/local
> so that everything is installed under my ~/local directory.
> 
> However make install (and make check) fail in "pmt" as follows:
> 
> make[5]: Entering directory 
> `/net/wellington/x/anastas/gnuradio_trunk/pmt/src/lib'
> test -z "/n/wellington/x/anastas/local//lib" || mkdir -p -- 
> "/n/wellington/x/anastas/local//lib"
>  /bin/sh ../../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  'libpmt.la' 
> '/n/wellington/x/anastas/local//lib/libpmt.la'
> /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libpmt.so 
> /n/wellington/x/anastas/local//lib/libpmt.so/usr/bin/install -c 
> .libs/libpmt.lai /n/wellington/x/anastas/local//lib/libpmt.la
> libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/local/lib'
>  /bin/sh ../../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'libpmt-qa.la' 
> '/n/wellington/x/anastas/local//lib/libpmt-qa.la'
> libtool: install: error: cannot install `libpmt-qa.la' to a directory not 
> ending in /usr/local/lib
> make[5]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/wellington/x/anastas/gnuradio_trunk/pmt/src/lib'
> make[4]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/wellington/x/anastas/gnuradio_trunk/pmt/src/lib'
> make[3]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/wellington/x/anastas/gnuradio_trunk/pmt/src/lib'
> make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/wellington/x/anastas/gnuradio_trunk/pmt/src'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/net/wellington/x/anastas/gnuradio_trunk/pmt'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> 
> It seems that libpmt-qa.la can only be installed in directories
> ending with /usr/local/lib
> 
> Is this a feature or a bug?
> any ideas how to resolve it?

Definitely not right, though "make distcheck" runs this same test.
Last time I checked, it worked.  [I'll check again now.]

What OS and distribution are you using?

> Thanks
> Achilleas

Eric