On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:01 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 04:29 PM, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> > Hi Stephen.
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:57 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:31 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> >>> I'm also really annoyed by this at times, but I don't know what the
> >>> right answer is.
> >>>
> >>> We really treat it like we have 5+ separate projects which just all
> >>> happen to live in the same git tree. Thus to build libselinux you
> >>> must have already built and installed libsepol. And then to build
> >>> libsemanage you need to have done that with both libsepol and
> >>> libselinux. Then of course to get the builds and install right (on
> >>> Fedora/RHEL) you have to know to use LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 SHLIBDIR=/lib64
> >>> for libsepol and libsepol, but SHLIBDIR=/usr/lib64 for libsemanage.
> >>> Its a mess, but I don't know what to do that's better....
> >>
> >> make DESTDIR=~/out at top-level should work fine - it will build and
> >> install each library into a private tree (as specified by DESTDIR) and
> >> then build and install the programs against those libraries. Without
> >> needing to clobber the system ones.
> >
> > At the moment, it does not, until the Makefile(s) are modified or at
> > least until the libraries are manually installed first.
> >
> > Try by yourself, but do not forget to remove
> > $(PREFIX)/usr/include/{selinux,semanage,sepol} and
> > $(PREFIX){/usr,}/lib/libse{linux,manage,pol}* first !
>
> I recently added the patch which changed the global to be 'build'
> instead of 'install', so sds might not realize that 'install' is no
> longer the default, however I think Guido is right about the install
> having a number of paces that it hard coded things...
Well, that's a regression then - it used to work with make DESTDIR=~/out
just fine.
--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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