Re: configure bug ?

[Walt H <waltabbyh@mindspring.com>]

Not sure if this helps you out, but if you set DIST_ROOT=/somedirectory/ 
and then export it prior to make install, it will prepend that dir to 
your install. Useful for installing the progs to a temp location for 
rescue disc builds etc...

-Walt


elkner@linofee.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just tried to build xfsprogs-1.3.17.src.tar.gz. For the "usual" user
> no problem, but if you want to make your own packages, which are not
> debian or redhat, you are out of luck, since your configure does
> not obey the --prefix=$proto option :(
> 
> Since setting PREFIX and ROOT_PREFIX env variables did not work either,
> I need to replace PKG_.*_DIR values with sed, but IMHO this is quick and
> dirty as well.
> 
> Furthermore I consider checking for ${prefix}/[share/]man/man1/man.1.gz
> to set HAVE_ZIPPED_MANPAGES is also very dirty because these directories
> or the man man page might not exist or not gzipped, but others.
> 
> Thus an configure option e.g. --man={gz|cat|auto} would be nice, which
> might be set for compatibility reasons per default to "auto", where the
> traditional mechanismen might be used to determine the HAVE_ZIPPED_MANPAGES
> value.
> 
> Another bug is related to static builds. With 
> ./configure --prefix=$PROTO --enable-shared=no --enable-shared-uuid=no
> one is out of luck again, since on pass 1 it is compiled static, but than
> make builds the dynamic version and overwrites the static binary :(((
> 
> So can you fix the:
> 	 --prefix option
> 	 gzipped man page stuff and
> 	 building static progs
> please?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> jens.
>