Re: xscreenserver WIP

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 10:36:42AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Attached is an in-progress package for xscreensaver.  There are a few
> issues:
> 
>  - It builds, but does not install.  It stops here:
> 
>      /gnu/store/34j2zmi69mqwrslpyizbi9mcxmn2hzgb-coreutils-8.24/bin/install -c xscreensaver /gnu/store/2agy7nwjl6gl4m271kx3xjkyi22zv2ps-xscreensaver-5.34/bin/xscreensaver
>      /gnu/store/34j2zmi69mqwrslpyizbi9mcxmn2hzgb-coreutils-8.24/bin/install -c xscreensaver-command /gnu/store/2agy7nwjl6gl4m271kx3xjkyi22zv2ps-xscreensaver-5.34/bin/xscreensaver-command
>      /gnu/store/34j2zmi69mqwrslpyizbi9mcxmn2hzgb-coreutils-8.24/bin/install -c xscreensaver-demo /gnu/store/2agy7nwjl6gl4m271kx3xjkyi22zv2ps-xscreensaver-5.34/bin/xscreensaver-demo
>      /gnu/store/34j2zmi69mqwrslpyizbi9mcxmn2hzgb-coreutils-8.24/bin/install -c xscreensaver-getimage /gnu/store/2agy7nwjl6gl4m271kx3xjkyi22zv2ps-xscreensaver-5.34/bin/xscreensaver-getimage
>      /gnu/store/34j2zmi69mqwrslpyizbi9mcxmn2hzgb-coreutils-8.24/bin/install: cannot create directory ‘/usr’: Permission denied
>      Makefile:302: recipe for target 'install-ad' failed
>      make[1]: *** [install-ad] Error 1
>      make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-xscreensaver-5.34.drv-0/xscreensaver-5.34/driver'
>      Makefile:29: recipe for target 'install' failed
>      make: *** [install] Error 5
>      phase `install' failed after 0.1 seconds
>      note: keeping build directory `/tmp/guix-build-xscreensaver-5.34.drv-0'
> 
>    If you look at the driver/Makefile result, this isn't surprising:
> 
>      install_prefix	=
>      # ...
>      install-ad: XScreenSaver.ad
>      	@if [ ! -d $(install_prefix)$(AD_DIR) ]; then			      \
>      	  $(INSTALL_DIRS) $(install_prefix)$(AD_DIR) ;			      \
>      	 fi
>         # ...

Did you try something like this?

(arguments
 `(#:make-flags (string-append "install_prefix= (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))))