On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Guido Trentalancia <guido@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello David ! > > On 21/06/2011 22:03, David Doria wrote: >> >> I cloned the SELinux repository and I don't see any README, INSTALL, >> or configure files. There is a Makefile, but typically 'make' is not >> the first step in an installation process, right? How should I build >> SELinux? > > You can just check the Makefile for very simple things such as editing the > CFLAGS (compiler options) or editing the PREFIX and/or DESTDIR (I can't > remember exactly now) and then just type: > > $ make > > to build > > $ make install > > to install it. > > Otherwise, you could pass the same variables to make as in: > > make CFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=corei7 -mtune=corei7" > > make DESTDIR=/ PREFIX=/usr install > > to build for example with debugging on an Intel Corei7 and install under > /usr on root filesystem. > >> Thanks, >> >> David > > configure won't be strictly needed (as there are very few simple build > options). And it's not packaged strictly according to GNU guidelines, so it > might not carry INSTALL, README, NEWS and friends. > > But in a sense you're right, one day the whole thing shall evolve towards > being a little bit more conformant to GNU guidelines (and provide for > example autoconf tools even if they might not appear as strictly needed but > at least for consistency with the underlying world). > > Hope it helps. > > Regards, > > Guido > Thanks Guido, I'm glad you agree with a transition to a more standard looking system :) For the moment, I tried this: ~/src/selinux$ make and got errors like this: install: cannot remove `/usr/include/sepol/sepol.h': Permission denied (NOTE: I don't have root on this machine) I then I tried this: ~/src/selinux$ make PREFIX=/home/ddoria/bin and it got farther, but eventually came to: sed -e 's/@VERSION@/2.0.45/; s:@prefix@:/home/ddoria/bin:; s:@libdir@:lib:; s:@includedir@:/home/ddoria/bin/include:' < libsepol.pc.in > libsepol.pc test -d /home/ddoria/bin/lib || install -m 755 -d /home/ddoria/bin/lib install -m 644 libsepol.a /home/ddoria/bin/lib test -d /lib || install -m 755 -d /lib install -m 755 libsepol.so.1 /lib install: cannot remove `/lib/libsepol.so.1': Permission denied make[2]: *** [install] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ddoria/src/selinux/libsepol/src' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ddoria/src/selinux/libsepol' make: *** [install] Error 1 (The same problem, trying to write to /lib which I don't have permission to write to) What is the difference between DESTDIR and PREFIX? Should I set them both to /home/ddoria/bin ? Thanks, David -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
