[bug-gawk] Upgrading to gawk 4.1.1 fails when write access to prefix is denied

[Ryan Schmidt]

Greetings,

Upgrading gawk 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 fails during the "make install" part when using 
the DESTDIR variable to specify an alternate destination directory and denying 
access to other directories including PREFIX (which is what the MacPorts 
package management system does, to prevent rogue software from writing files 
where it shouldn’t):


/usr/bin/make  install-data-hook
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_lang_gawk/gawk/work/gawk-4.1.1/extension'
for i in filefuncs.la fnmatch.la fork.la inplace.la ordchr.la readdir.la 
readfile.la revoutput.la revtwoway.la rwarray.la testext.la time.la ; do \
                rm -f /opt/local/lib/gawk/$i ; \
        done
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/filefuncs.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/fnmatch.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/fork.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/inplace.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/ordchr.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/readdir.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/readfile.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/revoutput.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/revtwoway.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/rwarray.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/testext.la: Permission denied
rm: /opt/local/lib/gawk/time.la: Permission denied
make[4]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1


Here’s my MacPorts bug report about this:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43406

Here’s the fix I committed, which I think is correct and should be applied to 
your upstream sources:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/lang/gawk/files/patch-extensions-Makefile.in.diff?rev=119180

That patch is for extensions/Makefile.in; you’ll want to patch 
extensions/Makefile.am instead; see attachment.

patch-extensions-Makefile.am.diff
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