packaging and config params

[Derek Atkins]

David,

I'm afraid I don't quite follow you here.  What do you mean by
"build tree" vs. "install tree"?  Normally the build process is:

./configure --prefix=/sw
make
make install DESTDIR=/path/to/tempspace
package up /path/to/tempspace
create install-scripts to perform operations (like gconf installations)

I don't know what you're doing and how it differs from the above.

-derek

David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:

> It looks like I am going to inherit the fink gnucash maintainership.  
> Argh. The 2.0.1 packaging file by someone who knows what he's doing  
> is functional, except that the contents of libexec are built in the  
> install tree instead of the build tree (with the side effect that  
> removing gnucash leaves behind the libexec files).
>
> fink apparently doesn't like having a libexec directory, so gnucash  
> has been configured in fink with --libexecdir=%p/lib, where %p almost  
> always represents /sw. This substitution/config parameter was also  
> done for at least the 1.8 series of gnucash too.
>
> So /sw/lib/gnucash/overrides/* gets created at buildtime instead of  
> waiting for installtime.
>
> Is it obvious to any of you what might be causing this behavior, or  
> how I might convince the fink build system of the error of its ways?
>
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> Mac 10.4.8, gcc 4.0.1

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