On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 05:58:26PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Rene,
Hi Jean, thanks for the detailed answer. > On Thu, 2023-08-10 at 16:50 +0200, Rene Kita wrote: > > When working from the git repo and starting clean a `make install' > > errors out because some files where not generated. [...] > > This does not work: > > > > make distclean || :; ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ && make install > > > > > > Errors out with: > > > > /usr/bin/install: cannot stat 'doc/README': No such file or directory > > make: *** [Makefile:318: install-main] Error 1 > > I don't consider this to be a bug. You obviously can't install before > building, so calling "make install" before "make" is simply not a good > idea, it can't succeed for any package, not just quilt. This is not my experience. Most packages I install from source just build when calling 'make install'. > Furthermore, I would argue that "make && make install" in your first > example is a bad idea. You typically need to be root to install a > package, but you don't want to build anything as root, for obvious > security reasons. As I always install into my $HOME, this does not affect me. > And this is the reason why we don't want to add > dependencies to the Makefile to let "make install" generate the missing > files, because that would most likely cause these files to be generated > by the wrong user. I see. It's a valid point. > In other words, if it hurts, well, just don't do it. Or patch the Makefile - it's open source for a reason. ;-) I will fix this on my side. Rene _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
