Re: Serial line lock directory

[Ludovic Courtès]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to package minicom and there I get an error message 
>>
>>   checking for com line lock directory... configure: error: No suitable lock 
>> directory
>>
>> ... which was checking for a (common) directory to put a file in (as a 
>> marker) when a serial device is in use (and removing the file to free the 
>> serial device).  This is supposed to prevent multiple different programs 
>> accidentally using the same serial line.
>>
>> Where and how should this be done in Guix?
>
> That sounds like a directory which should exist in the localstatedir
> (info '(standards) Directory Variables').  I haven't looked closely at
> the package, but your package definition makes it look like it's using a
> GNU build system, so hopefully it provides a way to configure the
> value used for the localstatedir.

Probably it checks whether $localstatedir exist, and it doesn’t exist in
the build environment.  So you’ll have to somehow tweak ‘configure’ into
skipping that test, perhaps by setting the relevant ‘ac_cv_’ variable if
it exists.

HTH!

Ludo’.