From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: statedir locations
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:53:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140128175358.GA29551@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqhke9yz.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:23:16AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
I was overconfident: the patch broke everything, because
Automake-generated makefiles typically try to mkdir $localstatedir:
http://hydra.gnu.org/eval/45514
So I just reverted it, and I think we???re stuck with the status quo until
someone has a better idea.
So the status quo is, that these packages mkdir /nix/store.../var/com .
Presumably they do that for a reason, viz the program needs to write
to these directories. But they will not be able to do that because /nix/store
is immutable. These programs will then break. :(
For the longer term, we could submit an Automake patch such that it
doesn???t insist on creating $localstatedir et al.
That sounds like a good idea. In the meantime, couldn't we patch the generated Makefile.in so that it will not die if the mkdir fails?
J'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-28 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-27 11:50 statedir locations John Darrington
2014-01-27 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 13:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-27 14:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 5:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-28 9:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 17:53 ` John Darrington [this message]
2014-01-28 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
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