Re: install PREFIX during packaging

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 14 May 2014, at 23:17, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Wolfgang Lux wrote:
>> The standard solution is to set the DESTDIR environment variable to a 
>> staging directory where you can install the package, e.g.,
>>   make install DESTDIR=/tmp/gnustep-base
> I am doing exactly that.
> gmake install DESTDIR=xxx
> 
> it works, but make fails in:
> Making all in Resources ...
> gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> Making all in Tests ...
> If you want to run the gnustep-base testsuite, please type 'make check'
> /opt/csw/bin/ginstall: cannot create regular file 
> `/opt/csw/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/Additional/base.make': Permission 
> denied
> Makefile.postamble:46: recipe for target 'before-install' failed
> gmake[2]: *** [before-install] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/multix/code/opencsw/gnustep-base/trunk/work/build-isa-sparcv8plus/gnustep-base-1.24.6'
> Makefile:48: recipe for target 'install-sourcegs' failed
> 
> even if destdir is to somethign inside my home, it fails apparently during 
> "Tests" ? But tests are not even executed.. I wonder.

It's not in tests, it's in Makefile.postamble (line 46) after Tests has been 
done.

However, in my copy of the source that line is installing to 
$(DESTDIR)$(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/Additional/base.make

So it looks like DESTDIR is not set for some reason.
Doing 'make install DESTDIR=/tmp/xxx' works on my CentOS-6 system (installs 
base.make as expected), so I guess anything unsetting DESTDIR is probably 
specific to your setup.