Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx>:
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.
It looks as if the standard GNU installation method would require
every user to run ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc, whereas most would
just try the usual ./configure && make. Given the choice between
a convenient installation for the user, and a working distcheck, I
think I'll have to take the convenient installation.
The other approach would be to run the command grep xx || sed yyy || true,
so that the installation never fails, but since the setup's a bit
obscure if it failed that would cause even more problems for users.
Thanks for the ideas, anyway - Will
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