On Tue Oct 24, 2000 at 12:45:50AM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > > Why not CFLAGS=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS ./configure (which was the standard before
> > > the macros) ?
> >
> > I had to change a bunch of stuff in ./configure (ie. prefix, mandir,
> > etc.) to all be $RPM_BUILD_ROOT because make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > install does not work in it... Don't ask me why, but it's a good
> > thing I tried building it as a user because it didn't want to install
> > into buildroot but into the live system. Without patching the
> > makefile, this was the easiest fix (and it works).
>
> Strange as %makeinstall only evaluate to make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}
> mandir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir} ... [etc] install ..
>
> Funny thing that it works for us now, but when we enter exactly the same
> thing (i.e. the expanded macro) it doesn't want to work on the older system :/
You forget I can't use those macros on the older versions... =) I'm
kinda stuck with doing things the clumsy way. =(
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