Re: special_prefix

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 06-03-14 à 16:12, Richard Stonehouse a écrit :

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:23:02PM +0000, Yves de Champlain  
> <yves@gnu-darwin.org> wrote:
>
> > I just tried to install gnustep-make 1.11.2 using special_prefix and
> > the Makefiles were installed in the real system root.  Also, no man
> > pages were installed.  Am I missing something ?
>
> I've just had a similar problem (I think) doing an RPM build, which
> uses a special_prefix. The following patch got it through the build:
>
> --- gnustep-make-1.11.2/GNUmakefile.in	2005-11-28  
> 21:07:45.000000000 +0000
> +++ temp/GNUmakefile.in 2006-03-14 00:36:13.000000000 +0000
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
>  export GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR
>  export MAYBE_LIBRARY_COMBO
>
> -makedir = @GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES@
> +makedir = $(special_prefix)@GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES@
>  tooldir = $(GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT)/Tools
>
>  INSTALL                = @INSTALL@
>
> But I don't really know what I'm doing here :-) so the above may
> be totally invalid! Use at own risk.

Indeed, it's a clever workaround, I found too that makedir is getting  
hardcoded in GNUmakefile
but my workaround was a clumsy sort

thanks

yves