So basically you want the ACLOCALDIR to be hardwired to
/usr/share/aclocal ?
Danny
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:52, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:52:32 +0200, Danny Backx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Danny> I've taken the conditional out of configure.in, and exported the macro
> Danny> so lesstif.spec gets configured to use the correct path.
>
> Danny> I trust this is better. Can you test ?
>
> It looks good in configure, but it won't fix lesstif.spec. The problem is
> that lesstif.spec is in the .src.rpm so it captures the the configure from the
> machine that built the .src.rpm ("dell" for the 0.93.95b-1 downloads). The
> setup of that machine is different from typical RH machines where people want
> to use the .src.rpm, leading to issue 3 below.
>
>
> Danny> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:14, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >> I was trying to rebuild the rpms on x86 RH9 from the sourceforge
> >> lesstif-0.93.97-1.src.rpm using the command line
> >>
> >> rpmbuild --rebuild --define "_topdir /u/martin/rpm-builds/build-area"
> --buildroot /u/martin/rpm-builds/build-install lesstif-0.93.97-1.src.rpm
> >>
> >> but this fails with
> >>
> >> File not found:
> /u/martin/rpm-builds/build-install/usr/local/share/aclocal/ac_find_motif.m4
> >>
> >> The problem is that the install phase of rpm didn't install ac_find_motif.m4.
> >> This happens because configure checks for `aclocal --print-ac-dir` being a
> >> writable directory and I'm running rpmbuild as me (not root) so the system ac
> >> dir is unwritable.
> >>
> >> This looks wrong to me for 3 reasons:
> >>
> >> 1) In normal non-rpm builds, it should be possible to run configure and make
> >> as a normal user and then run make install as root. With the current
> >> configure, this won't install ac_find_motif.m4.
> >>
> >> 2) In the rpm build, the make install is done into a private directory so an
> >> unwritable system ac dir is an irrelevance.
> >>
> >> 3) The system ac dir is /usr/share/aclocal but the spec file packages it in
> >> /usr/local/share/aclocal/ac_find_motif.m4.
> >>
> >> Any comments?
>
>
> __Martin
>
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