Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 25 April 2009 18:56:01 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Saturday, 2009-04-25 at 18:20 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 April 2009 17:14:44 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 2009-04-25 at 09:44 -0400, peby@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > I normally try to run checkinstall to make an rpm rather than 'make
> > > > install' - but this had a bug too, it just need a directory to be
> > > > manually created.
> > >
> > > I wrote a bugzilla about that problem time ago.
> >
> > My guess is that the makefile creates the directory relative to the
> > installation root, but then tries to install not relative to it, into the
> > real file system
>
> It happens with many Makefile files I have tried, I have no idea why. A
> project would compile on openSUSE 10.3, then it failed in 11.0.
>
> Example:
>
> /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libdvdcss.a /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.a
> chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.a

Exactly. A hard coded path directly into the file system. This doesn't work 
when you want to create an rpm, everything has to be relative to the 
installation root.

This is a very common bug in makefiles

> chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/local/lib/libdvdcss.a': No such file
> or directory make[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
>
>
> This is Bug 432497, if you are interested.

I am, but it is still a problem with the makefiles

Anders
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