[Kst] beta3-2

[D. V. Wiebe]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:21:50AM -0400, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand.
> 
> why not
> ./install-kst release /dest/dir/absolute/prefix
> 
> Assuming /absolute/prefix/lib is in ld.so.conf, everything should work fine 
> when you unroll the package, shouldn't it?
> 
> cbn

I suppose that would work, so long as none of the files that get install
have $PREFIX hard-coded in them.  If it does, you'd get the situation that kst
would be looking in the (probably non-existant) $DESTDIR/$PREFIX for things
instead of the $PREFIX.

I think packagers prefer to assume that the installed programs do indeed
contain references to $PREFIX, and, as a result, prefer to separate $PREFIX
from $DESTDIR, to be sure that the installed files can't be contaminated by
$DESTDIR.

-dvw

> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 21:17:00 D. V. Wiebe wrote:
> > Looking at the qmake generated makefiles seem to indicate I should set
> > the envirnomental variable INSTALL_ROOT; so let's try creating a kst
> > that will eventually be installed in /absolute/prefix, but that I want
> > to stage, for packaging reasons in /dest/dir (ie. so everything will be
> > installed in /dest/dir/absolute/prefix/*)  I tried:
> > 
> > $ INSTALL_ROOT=/dest/dir ./install-kst anything-but-debug /absolute/prefix
> > 
> > almost works.  It installs things in /dest/dir/* instead of the intended
> > /dest/dir/absolute/prefix/*.  (ie. setting INSTALL_ROOT ignores
> > INSTALL_PREFIX.)
> > 
> > As an aside, you should point out in the INSTALL document that the
> > INSTALL_PREFIX passed to ./install-kst should be an absolute path or
> > weirdness will ensue.  (The particular weirdness is things get installed
> > in the src tree.)
> > 
> > Doing something like
> > 
> > $ ./install-kst still-not-debug /some/path/not/usr
> > 
> > properly installs kst2 in /some/path/not/usr, but the executable can't
> > be run, because there are no RPATHs in it pointing to
> > /some/path/not/usr/lib .
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -dvw
> > 

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