Doesn't Debian provide tooling for doing exactly what you describe (fooling the build tools into installing in non-root locations)?
I would expect the packaging tooling to work the same for the guacamole-server source as any other source that uses GNU Autotools. - Mike On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 16:40 Justin Phelps <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Mike, > > Here's the failure when I only use --prefix=my/build/dir > > /usr/bin/install -c init.d/guacd '/etc/init.d' > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/etc/init.d/guacd': > Permission denied > Makefile:531: recipe for target 'install-initSCRIPTS' failed > > If I also try to override the init.d script location with > --with-init-dir=my/build/dir/etc/init.d the generated file has this full > path, which doesn't work on the actual target system. The target system > being the standard /etc/init.d/guacd > > -- > Justin Phelps > www.onitato.com > 210.560.3124 > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/linuturk > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 4:31 PM Mike Jumper <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 4:21 PM Justin Phelps <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm working to build a deb package from source, but I'm having trouble >>> redirecting the "make install" command to the package location. >>> >>> I attempted to use --prefix, but that broke the init.d script that was >>> being written. >>> >> >> Broke how? >> >> --prefix (provided to the configure script prior to running "make") is >> the correct way. That option controls the base directory for all installed >> components, including guacd (which would be installed to PREFIX/sbin). The >> install location of guacd is dynamically substituted into the init script >> as part of the build: >> >> >> https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/blob/c97b8f287eaf756504edd9559d95ba6568b12bb1/src/guacd/Makefile.am#L82-L84 >> >> https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/blob/c97b8f287eaf756504edd9559d95ba6568b12bb1/src/guacd/init.d/guacd.in#L37 >> >> - Mike >> >>
