Re: [ccmtools-devel] HelloWorld falls silent

[Joerg F. <jf...@sa...>]

>>>>> "Darrell" == Darrell Schiebel <dr...@nr...> writes:

Darrell> On Wednesday, April 28 2004 at 17:34+0200, Joerg Faschingbauer wrote: 
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to build this for packaging with RPM (so I can get others to
>>> try ccmtools, if it looks promising). Currently I have to sed most of
>>> the Makefiles to patch the repo location not to install into /usr (BTW,
>>> what is the repo for?), see below. Is there an easier way to build
>>> cpp-environment in an intermediate location for later
>>> installation via RPM?
>> 
>> Why don't you give the prefix you want? Like so,
>> 
>> confix.py '--prefix=/home/drs/dev/ccmtools/cpp-environment/root'
>> '--buildroot=/home/drs/dev/ccmtools/cpp-environment' --bootstrap
>> --configure --make --targets=install
>> 
>> I believe the $(prefix) macro in the Makefiles is somewhat private
>> anyway, in a sense that it should not be overridden by the user.
>> 
>> Or am I missing something (I guess so)? I've never built RPMs.

Darrell> 	Well, (too) often packages use the 'prefix' to compile in
Darrell> 	paths for things like finding help files, shared object files,
Darrell> 	state files, etc. So when I build RPMs I try to specify the
Darrell> 	final resting place as the 'prefix' and then just coerce the
Darrell> 	install step to install to an intermediate location. This seems
Darrell> 	to be something confix does not support (though the 'setup.py'
Darrell> 	which builds confix does support it).

I see. The fact that the repo directory is an absolute path in the
generated Makefile is clearly a bug. You might want to give 1.3.pre22
(sic!) a try, where this is fixed, so substituting $(prefix) should be
just fine now.

Joerg