Re: 1.6.0 DESTDIR install broken

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:43:14AM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> Errr... don't hate me forever for this ... but 1.6.0 installs using
> DESTDIR don't work :-( They worked fine in -pre10 ... looks like your
> magic to install pt_BR-parted.8 doesn't quite do enough.

It worked here...

> I can't work
> out exactly what you've done there, the install code is in Makefile.in
> but not Makefile.am ... how did you do that?

automake "magic" *shudder*

> Anyway, you should be
> installing pt_BR-parted.8 to $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/pt_BR-parted.8, rather
> than just plain $(mandir)/pt_BR-parted.8.

huh?  mandir has ${prefix} in it (read Makefile.in).
$(mandir) should be correct.

Perhaps the .deb scripts are doing weird stuff?

> dh_testroot
> dh_clean -k
> dh_installdirs
> /usr/bin/make -C build install 
> DESTDIR=/home/timshel/src/debian/work/parted1.6-1.6.0/debian/tmp
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/home/timshel/src/debian/work/parted1.6-1.6.0/build'
> <lots of install stuff snipped>
> Making install in doc
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/home/timshel/src/debian/work/parted1.6-1.6.0/build/doc'
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/home/timshel/src/debian/work/parted1.6-1.6.0/build/doc'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> /usr/bin/install -c -D ../../doc/pt_BR-parted.8 
> /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/parted.8
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
> `/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/parted.8': Permission denied

Permission denied?!
Did it create /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8?  (I'm guessing it didn't already
exist)

What are the perms?

Perhaps your install is different, and set different perms?

Thanks,
Andrew