[debbugs-tracker] bug#11737: closed (Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in)

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> Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in
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> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:47:26 -0500
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> It looks like there may be a problem with the interaction between
> DESTDIR and infodir in 24.1.  You can see the problem by running
> something like this after a configure and make:
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>   make DESTDIR=/some/where infodir=/forbidden/place/ install
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> Assuming you don't have access to /forbidden/, the install process will
> fail in doc/misc here:
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>   mkinfodir = @cd ${srcdir}; test -d ${infodir} || mkdir ${infodir} || test -d 
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> because the infodir setting (without modification by DESTDIR) will be
> passed down from ./Makefile.in and override the doc/misc/Makefile.in
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>   infodir=../../info
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> I would guess that either doc/misc/Makefile.in should respect DESTDIR,
> or this bit of ./Makefile.in:
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>   info-real:
>         (cd doc/misc; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info)
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> should either unset infodir before calling $(MAKE), or should specify an
> infodir that respects DESTDIR.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Rob Browning
> rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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> Re: bug#11737: Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in
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> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:10:31 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.2
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> I renamed $infodir to $buildinfodir in doc/*/Makefile.in, since it has
> no relation to the $infodir used by install.
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