Re: [PATCH 2/5] xfstests: Use libtool to install applications

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Boris Ranto <ranto.boris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Rich,
>
>just as Eric guessed, I package the xfstests test suite (and that is
>also
>why I need the DIST_ROOT variable functioning properly). Although I can
>currently work around the problem  by doing something like
>
>./configure
>make
>mkdir -p /var/lib/xfstets/{ltp,src}
>make DIST_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
>
>it certainly is not the best solution to the problem. If the test suite
>is
>completely independent from its location then also maybe this could
>work (I
>did not try it, yet and I'm still not sure it is the best solution)
>
>./configure --prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>make
>make install
>
>but if that is the case then it'd probably make sense to drop the whole
>DIST_ROOT support from install-sh script to avoid confusion and update
>the
>spec file in bulld/rpm/.
>
>Regards,
>Boris

Boris,

When you get it working for packaging purposes I'd appreciate a post detailing 
what works.  I thought about packaging xfstests for opensuse a couple years ago 
but aborted the effort when I realized it was not designed to be installed at 
the time.

Greg
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