Re: [libextractor] 0.5.15, DESTDIR and a wrong made symlink

[Christian Grothoff]

Dear Damir,

Thanks for the report.  I believe that the attached patch will fix the problem 
(I've also corrected it in SVN, so this will be in the next release).

Best regards,

Christian

On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:40, Damir Perisa wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i'm package maintainer of archlinux and libextractor is my pkg. i
> build it with the following build()
>
> build() {
>   cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --disable-static
>   make || return 1
>   make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
>   find $startdir/pkg -name '*.la' -exec rm {} \;
> }
>
> but recently i realised that i end up with a symlink tha points to the
> DESTDIR/prefix instead of just prefix:
>
> libextractor E: Symlink
> (usr/lib/libextractor/libextractor_thumbnail.so) points
> to
> /home/damir/cvsARCH/extra/extra/lib/libextractor/pkg/usr/lib/libextractor/l
>ibextractor_thumbnailgtk.so
>
> it should not do that, if you use a set prefix and a DESTDIR just to
> install the files to a package instead to the filesystem itself. can
> you correct that in the next release, thanx
>
> greetings,
> Damir

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