* bug#11737: Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in
@ 2012-06-18 22:47 Rob Browning
2012-06-19 2:10 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Rob Browning @ 2012-06-18 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 11737
It looks like there may be a problem with the interaction between
DESTDIR and infodir in 24.1. You can see the problem by running
something like this after a configure and make:
make DESTDIR=/some/where infodir=/forbidden/place/ install
Assuming you don't have access to /forbidden/, the install process will
fail in doc/misc here:
mkinfodir = @cd ${srcdir}; test -d ${infodir} || mkdir ${infodir} || test -d ${infodir}
because the infodir setting (without modification by DESTDIR) will be
passed down from ./Makefile.in and override the doc/misc/Makefile.in
setting:
infodir=../../info
I would guess that either doc/misc/Makefile.in should respect DESTDIR,
or this bit of ./Makefile.in:
info-real:
(cd doc/misc; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info)
should either unset infodir before calling $(MAKE), or should specify an
infodir that respects DESTDIR.
Hope this helps.
--
Rob Browning
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