Hello, * cwr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:38:43PM CEST: > I'm building a package which on installation writes to a file used > to configure the GUI - this file is always in /etc, no matter where > the package is installed. What if I'm trying to bootstrap a new system, say, whose root lives in /sys-root or so? > When installing, that's not a problem, > since installation is done as root, however I haven't found a way > of letting me run "make distcheck" without error, since that is done > as an ordinary user. > > The entry in the main Makefile.am is approxmately: > install-data-local: > grep xxx /etc/yyy || sed zzz /etc/yyy Make sure the target directory is not /etc but something like $(DISTDIR)$(sysconfdir), so that both make install DESTDIR=/sys-root and make install prefix=/sys-root have a chance of succeeding. > The problem is to avoid this set of commands being run when > distcheck is the target. I've tried using DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, > but the main Makefile is written before this variable is valid. This > problem must have ocurred before - what's the usual solution? See above, and also 'info Automake "Hard-Coded Install Paths"'. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
