On 2011-11-29 08:39, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 28-11-2011 15:03:56 -0500, Eric G wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm currently trying to use the OpenSUSE build service >> (http://build.openeuse.org), to build packages RPMs for for CentOS and >> RedHat distributions, and i think I've found a bug in a Makefile for >> MonetDB. >> >> Essentially it looks like the explicit path >> /etc/tmpfiles.d/monetdbd.conf is used in the Makefile located here: >> MonetDB-11.5.9/buildtools/conf/Makefile.in > > It's sysconfdir/tmpfiles.d (aparently necessary for systemd) > >> ...and the RPM build process doesn't like that. OpenSUSE essentially >> implicitly enables the "norootdir" option in the spec file (regardless >> of if it's actually present or not) because RPMs are built is special >> purpose-built VMs that are provisioned when a "job" to build an RPM is >> submitted, and the build process doesn't run as root. >> >> See here and here for more discussion on this problem (it's a common >> problem apparently): >> >> http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Building+RPM+tips >> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Permission_denied_errors >> >> I think the "fix" is as simple as inserting "$(prefix)" into the line >> in Makefile.in, so that the build path is used to create the temporary >> folder instead of attempting to writing to the system-wide /etc folder >> (the build fails on the Makefile's install phase with permission >> denied errors because of this static path). > > I think the problem here is that $(prefix) (or ${prefix}) is /usr, and > etc doesn't belong under /usr, so you could try > --sysconfdir='${prefix}/../etc' to make SuSE happy. > >> Am I on to something here? If I'm right, can the Makefile.in file be >> patched please, adding $(prefix)? > > See above why this doesn't make sense.
In addition to Fabian's remarks, all these paths in the (generated) Makefile.in files are prefixed with $(DESTDIR) (at least, this is the case on Fedora) which the build process is supposed to use for relocating the installation during a make install. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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