On 22-Oct-04 at 18:21, Martin Simmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:18:12 +0200, Danny Backx
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Danny> So basically you want the ACLOCALDIR to be hardwired to
> Danny> /usr/share/aclocal ?
>
> Yes, that's probably right if you are targeting RedHat. I've not checked
> for other rpm-based systems.
>
> Another way would be to install it in the correct place by calling aclocal
> --print-ac-dir in a post-installation script.
I think this is the best way, but, (there is always a but), it will break a
"make distcheck". Which I think is a bad thing. I can provide a snippet that I
use to get the best of both worlds, if you are interested ....
>
>
> 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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