Recent changes to bugs

configure.in and makefile.am fixes

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 01:02:24 -0000

configure.in has this bit of code:
AC_ARG_WITH(x, build with X11 utilities, no_x=yes, no_x=no)
this incorrectly uses the AC_ARG_WITH macro ... the format of the
macro is this:
AC_ARG_WITH(package, help-text, [if-given], [if-not-given])
the logic currently assumes that the 3rd param is if configure is
given '--without-x' while the 4th param assumes that configure is
given '--with-x' ... the correct usage would be to detect *what* the
user gave via $withval in the 3rd param while the 4th param
specifies the default value (in this case, X will be enabled by default)
... if the variable was changed to 'use_x' instead of 'no_x' then
negation of the $withval would not be needed ... otherwise for the
3rd param you'll need something like this:
[ "$withval" == "yes" ] && no_x=no || no_x=yes
note that this is bash style and may not work well with sh ...

extra.mk has this bit of code:
$(INSTALL) -d $(prefix)/doc
it also runs many other install/rm commands on $(prefix) ... the
problem is that it does not prefix all paths with $(DESTDIR) ... if
you look through Makefile.in you will see that all operations on
$(prefix), $(bindir), etc... are of the form $(DESTDIR)$(prefix),
$(DESTDIR)$(bindir), etc...
so the correct form for extra.mk would be to prefix all paths with
$(DESTDIR) :)

my contact: vapier@gentoo.org

src.rpm fails to build

Anonymous — Thu, 09 May 2002 15:04:07 -0000

$ rpm --rebuild pdv-1.5.1-1.src.rpm
...
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/pdv-1.5.1
+ make install
Making install in .
make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/pdv-1.5.1'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/pdv-1.5.1'
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
./install-sh pdv /usr/local/bin/pdv
cp: cannot create regular file
`/usr/local/bin/#inst.24369#': Permission denied
./install-sh pdvmkpkg /usr/local/bin/pdvmkpkg
cp: cannot create regular file
`/usr/local/bin/#inst.24385#': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74015
(%install)
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74015 (%install)
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/pdv-1.5.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/pdv-1.5.1'

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It is probably caused by a missing buildroot.

shell command can not execlp

Glen Wiley — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:20:30 -0000

Anything string other than a single executable supplied with the "-e" switch will not properly execute. Would be better to use system() to support aribtrary command lines.