On 10/25/2009 03:04 PM, David Timms wrote:
Hi, an app I maintain recently gained a help menu. It expects to find
the single help.html file in /usr/share/help
(ie:
make install helpdir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/help
)
This folder seems to be owned by rarian, and hence doesn't seem to make
sense as location to place this help file.
This sounds like a blatant bug in rarian to me ;-)
Is the best approach to patch the src so that it expects to find the
help file in a better location ?
What would that location be ?
ie. maybe:
make install helpdir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}
No, because this would only change the directory of installation, but
would not change the application's expectiations (the application's
built-in directory).
I.e. the application would still look into $(datadir)/help while the
files it expects to find are located elsewhere.
, and then adjust src to look there ?
Exactly. You have to change the sources to make the app look into the
modified installation directory.
How to implement this depends on a package's configuration/makefile details.
In some cases it would be necessary to patch the sources.
In some cases it's possible to override values at "configuration-time"
or make-time.
I.e. there are chances
%configure helpdir=%{_datadir}/%{name}
make
make install DESTDIR="..."
might work.
or
%configure
make helpdir="%{_datadir}/%{name}"
make helpdir="%{_datadir}/%{name}" DESTDIR="..." install
will work.
Ralf
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