Re: Cross compile gpsd-3.20.1~dev for arm with buildroot

[Greg Troxel]

Florian Kiera <florian.kiera@logicway.de> writes:

> Checkout SConstruct line 2147 and line 2158. It uses "DESTDIR +
> str(python_libdir)" to give the install path. The problem here is that
> python_libdir is already an absolute path to the STAGING_DIR's python
> module. (in my case

Then don't do that.  python_libdir and other dir paths are in terms of
the target filesystem.  DESTDIR is about a chroot on the build host
where things should be put, either for packaging staging, cross,
whatever.

To repeat: it is an error to make python_libdir a path that includes DESTDIR.