Forwarding Neil's answer to list.
Neil Williams schrieb:
On Sunday 08 January 2006 9:24 pm, you wrote:
Hi Neil,
Hi.
someone on the gnucash-de list tries to create a gentoo ebuild for
gnucash-SVN.
And it looks like they have not got the packaging correct.
:-(
I suggest hinting DESTDIR, e.g. a Fink build uses
InstallScript: <<
make install DESTDIR=%d
<<
No idea what the syntax would be for gentoo but pilot-qof is the same. (and
don't get me started on pilot-link!!)
Gentoo portage tries to build and install everything in a sandbox
directory.
QOF works fine in such environments - the path is NOT hardcoded, it's
dependent on the --prefix so it follows the prescribed pattern.
In his case this got an error (copy below) on installing the
qsfschema_DATA files in lib/libqof/backend/file , because they were about
to be installed in an absolute path instead of something below the
sandbox's $prefix. I checked configure.in and saw the definition of the
absolute path in QOF_XML_DIR.
It is not absolute, it uses the $prefix value - precisely as it should.
An absolute path wouldn't work on OSX which is where QOF and pilot-qof work
just fine.
(Far easier than gnucash ever could!)
:-)
Can this please be changed?
Not currently.
The change would
be as below. (Side note: If it isn't changed, it will most probably also
break things like make distcheck or rpmbuild.)
It does not, I've packaged QOF using this setting using Debian, RPM and Fink
without any complaints, including using chroot environments.
if test x$QOF_XML_DIR = x; then
AC_MSG_RESULT([no, will use internal QOF code])
- QOF_LIB_DIR=`eval echo $libdir | sed "s%^NONE%$prefix%"`
- QOF_LIB_DIR=`eval echo $QOF_LIB_DIR | sed "s%^NONE%$prefix%"`
+ QOF_LIB_DIR="\${libdir}"
Doesn't work. That is the first thing I tried. In case you didn't notice, the
first line uses the value in $libdir and then does some basic syntax checking
- that's all it does.
QOF_CFLAGS="-I\${top_srcdir}/lib/libqof/qof"
QOF_LIBS="\${top_srcdir}/lib/libqof/qof/libqof.la"
# QOF_LIB_DIR=`eval echo ${libdir}`
QOF_VERSION="internal"
QOF_PREFIX="internal"
- QOF_XML_DIR=`eval echo ${datadir}/xml/qsf`
+ QOF_XML_DIR="\${datadir}/xml/qsf"
And what do you think that change would achieve?
Maybe the package maintainer needs to specify DESTDIR to make install. That
was required for Fink - and not just for the schema either.
Your original premise in inaccurate - the problem does not exist as portrayed.
If this was a bug report, I'd tag it "won't fix" and close it.
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