Re: [Fink-devel] build-as-nobody fails because %d is not writable during CompileScript?

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On 27 Nov 2006, at 00:12, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

>
> On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
>> On 11/26/06, Christian Schaffner <ch...@us...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems like postgresql80-unified-8.0.9-1021 does not build with --
>>> build-as-nobody. I get the error messages below. Do you think that
>>> could be fixed?
>> I'm not sure how to fix this exactly, other than installing in /tmp
>> (ick).
>>
>> The PostgreSQL packages build a number of 3rd-party things *against*
>> the libpq that's built in the main part of CompileScript, ie,
>> CompileScript essentially does:
>>
>> * build postgresql
>> * install postgresql into %d
>> * build a number of plugins against the postgresql in %d
>>
>> For historical, compatibility, and other reasons, I can't get rid of
>> this build behavior...  Does anyone know of a reasonable way to  
>> handle
>> this that's compatible with build-as-nobody?  I don't *really*  
>> have to
>> care where I'm installing temporarily, but it's kind of sucky not
>> being able to use what is officially the package's destdir in all
>> other ways.
>
> You can use a subdir of %b. - %b/_tmp_install_location ?
>
> It is reasonable for fink to assume that the compile phase does not
> install stuff, I think.
strange _ my "off the cuff" reaction went the other direction:
can't you move at worst the whole compilescript to the installscript ?

JF