Something is still broken with the build process
Laurent Duperval
lduperval at videotron.ca
Sat Apr 5 11:25:27 CST 2003
On 4 Apr, Derek Atkins wrote:
> WTF is "soft linking"?
>
Installing in a directory and creating softlinks from another. In my
case, I install everything in a directory and create a bunch of
softlinks from /usr/local/...
> And yes, it is wrong. "gnucash" is not "every piece of software".
> I'm trying to tell you what you need to do with GnuCash. It doesn't
> matter if lots of other stuff works differently, this is how GnuCash
> works. Jumping up and down and ignoring the directions you are given
> because you think it should work differently is not the way to convince
> people it's broken.
>
> Basically, if you're not going to follow directions, then maybe you
> can go find someone else to hand-hold you. I'm trying to help. Don't
> ignore what I'm saying.
>
All right, I'll do that. My apologies, I didn't mean to offend you.
> As I said, I don't know what "soft-linking" is in terms of software
> installation. Basically, gnucash needs to know where it's going to be
> installed when you configure it. Period. End of story. You have to
> tell it during the configuration phase. You cannot change it during
> the installation phase.
>
> If you want to install into a temporary directory, like how .deb or
> .rpm is built, you need to use the LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
> when you "make install" in order to get the re-link process to work
> properly. You need to do:
>
> DESTDIR=/tmp/path
> prefix=/usr/real/path
>
> env LIBRARY_PATH=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib:$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/gnucash \
> make install DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)
>
No, it's not in a temporary directory, it'll be the final directory.
Except that everything will be linked in /usr/local/{bin,etc,lib,etc.).
>> I will also note that this used to work but then, sometime in the life
>> of the 1.7.x series, it suddenly broke. I'd also mentioned it at the
>> time.
>
> AFAIK this _never_ worked.. It certainly never worked for me. This
> is how it works now....
>
Hmmm... I seem to remember that it did. But since you know better than
I do, I'll assume I'm wrong.
> Part of the broken is the version of libtool we're using. I do
> not expect this to be changed in the 1.8 series, but hopefully
> we can "fix" this for 2.0 (or 1.10).
>
Maybe that's it.
All right, I'll follow the rules and everything should be Ok. Once
again, I apologize to anyone who may have interpreted me messages as
being offensive.
L
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