[gambit-list] 4.0b20 and later not respecting --prefix=

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Apr 6 09:01:16 EDT 2007


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On 6-Apr-07, at 6:05 AM, Arto Bendiken wrote:

> Yes, I did that, too - but it's not sufficient, in itself, to ensure a
> clean MacPorts installation. Please have a look at the portfile:
>
>  http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/attachment/ticket/11688/ 
> Portfile
>
> There are at least two further issues:
>
> a) Any explicit --infodir, --libdir, etc. directives to ./configure
> are not observed in the source makefiles.
>
> b) After compilation, MacPorts stages the installation into a
> temporary destroot directory before making a binary tarball and
> installing into the real target. Because the installation paths in
> Gambit's source makefiles aren't prefixed by $(DESTDIR), the destroot
> stage actually prematurely installs all the files into the final
> target (in the case of MacPorts, into /opt/local/), leaving the
> destroot empty and causing the package build to fail.

OK.  I will look into this.  I will also add a configure option to  
set the PACKAGE_SUBDIR to "" when calling ./configure .

Marc

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