Re: Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9
"Daniel Macks" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:44:00 +0200, Max Horn <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, > > On 19.08.2014, at 19:57, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:47:58 +0200, Max Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > > >> cp: /sw/share/info/dir.bak: Permission denied > >> >> I think this is caused by the install-info tool and the fact > that the >> affected packages (e.g. grep) use the "InfoDocs" fields. > I don't >> think a package author can do much about that, can they? > As such, >> perhaps you could check if the above line is the only one > with >> "permission denied", and in that case, demote the "failure" > to a >> "warning" ? > > > In a packaging context, install-info should be deferred to the > actual > live install (.deb -> %p) rather than during the writing to > the staging > directory (InstallScript -> %i). InfoDocs automatically > does the > former. Some build systems automatically disable > install-info in the %i > context, but others need to be disabled > explicitly by the maintainer. > It's always doable, but there are > many variations among the build tools > (sometimes an autoconf flag, > sometimes a make variable, sometimes > manually commenting out part > of a makefile). Any hints on how to do that, or perhaps examples of > packages that do that? > Many of the affected cases are actually straight GNU packages, such as > diffutils, gawk, grep, gzip, sed I just looked at grep, which appears to use a standard automake recipe that can be controlled by: -make install DESTDIR=%d +make install DESTDIR=%d AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no dan -- Daniel Macks [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel