Re: Another libtool problem

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi Ralf,

On Sun, 7 May 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Sun, May 07, 2006 at 05:53:30PM CEST:
> > (2) "make install" should not modify the build tree
> > because ..... (2) the build tree might be read-only for root.
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is there a way to address that problem? (-no-fast-install?)
>
> There's a TODO list item to make this work everywhere with
> --enable-fast-install (which is the default).  ......

Good to know

> .....  Until then,
> there is the workaround of doing a
>  make install DESTDIR=/tmp/dest
>
> as normal user, and then as root, copying that tree to its final
> location, then a
>  libtool --mode=finish $libdir..

That works is the package is properly DESTDIRized; unfortunately quite a few
packages use automake plus non-DESTDIRized install-{data,exec}-hooks.

And one has to be careful with setuid/setgid files.

So, this is really just a workaround.

> Hope that helps.

I just moved everything to a local filessystem.

regards         Peter