Re: Fixing absolute install fails on OSX

On 14 September 2015 at 04:19, Ilja Honkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Absolute install
>>>>> name=/private/var/folders/ff/m6cylxhd2csdz9fh62g3djtm0000gq/T/0compile-GFyugS/gcc-any-any/lib/libcilkrts.5.dylib
>>>>> in
>>>>> /private/var/folders/ff/m6cylxhd2csdz9fh62g3djtm0000gq/T/0compile-GFyugS/gcc-any-any/lib/libcilkrts.5.dylib;
>>>>> fixing...
>>>> suspect it's trying to replace some full path names with relative
>>>> paths, since otherwise the binary it compiled can't be relocated.
>>> Could I work around this by using DESTDIR? From gcc docs:
>>> Installation into a temporary staging area or into a chroot jail can be
>>> achieved with the command
>>>        make DESTDIR=path-to-rootdir install
>>> where path-to-rootdir is the absolute path of a directory relative to
>>> which all installation paths will be interpreted. Note that the
>>> directory specified by DESTDIR need not exist yet; it will be created if
>>> necessary.
>> Possibly - let us know if it works! I know we've distributed gcc-based
>> languages before (gdc) with 0install, so it should work. It might be a
>> case of modifying 0compile to skip that error.
>
> Doesn't look like destdir would work here because --prefix is the final
> directory according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11307465 but
> $DISTDIR (where 0compile docs say to put the result in) is
> /private/var/folders/ff/m6cylxhd2csdz9fh62g3djtm0000gq/T/0compile-T8poWD/gcc-any-any
> instead of e.g.
> $HOME/.local/share/0install.net/site-packages/file/$home..__0inst-test__lfs__gcc_gcc.xml/5.2.0-x86_64/.
> Why wouldn't $DISTDIR point to final location? Since I can probably
> guess where gcc would end up at this hack might work: $SRCDIR/configure
> --prefix=/final/path/guess ... && make && make DESTDIR=$DISTDIR install.
> Is there a way to find out where 0compile will move things after
> compilation?

The easiest way is to remove the failing code in 0compile and see what
happens. In general, 0install packages are supposed to be relocatable,
although you might not care for testing.


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