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#1 2010-02-23 12:53:59
- TiborB
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creating PKGBUILD: make install wants to copy files directly to /
Hi
I'm trying to write a PKGBUILD (I allready have some experiences) and part of installation procedure is to run 'make install'. But it tries to write directly to final locations of files (/usr/...) ...
What is standard aproach to such situation? Is it possible to fool 'make install' to copy files to $pkgdir as a fake root?
Or should I extract all relevant commands from make install and modify and put them directly to PKGBUILD? This is not always easy, and is prone to mistakes, I think....
Please advice.....
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#2 2010-02-23 12:57:25
- Allan
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Re: creating PKGBUILD: make install wants to copy files directly to /
It is usually something like:
make DESTDIR=$pkgdir installor
make prefix=$pkgdir/usr installOffline
#3 2010-02-23 13:04:20
- TiborB
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Re: creating PKGBUILD: make install wants to copy files directly to /
looks very simple, I will try it .....
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#4 2010-02-24 23:21:04
- TiborB
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Re: creating PKGBUILD: make install wants to copy files directly to /
But doesn't work...
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#5 2010-02-24 23:24:41
- tomk
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Re: creating PKGBUILD: make install wants to copy files directly to /
You need to examine the Makefile then - the install target in particular. Patching is the best solution - sed'ing is also OK. Running a bunch of install/cp commands in your PKGBUILD works, but is not very elegant.
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