Re: Build from Source Can't Find Guile Development Files

[Nala Ginrut]

Hmm...personally I never use DESTDIR, but some folks need it for
packaging or other purpose. So I'm not sure if it's expected
activity. To me, it looks like a bug.

Best regards.

Jonathan Schmeling writes:

> Thanks!
>
> I had spotted that but it looked like it placed the prefix after the DESTDIR.
>
> Trying it out, it did place the etc/artanis path under the location 
> designated by DESTDIR but also placed all the other files under the build 
> directory twice (so, if DESTDIR is <build-dir> and prefix is <build-dir>/usr, 
> I wound up with <build-dir>/<build-dir>/usr/share/guile/site/2.2/artanis and 
> <build-dir>/<build-dir>/usr/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache/artanis). It seems that 
> DESTDIR overrides the given prefix, perhaps, since the result was the same 
> with or without it, for configure?
>
> I can easily move the files so it's not a dealbreaker but I wasn't certain if 
> this was the desired behavior so I thought I'd make mention of it.
>
> Jonathan
> On Saturday, November 2, 2019, 11:58:13 PM CDT, Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Jonathan Schmeling writes:
>
>> I was figuring that'd be handled by setting the prefix but am I mistaken? If 
>> so, is there a way to specify where to copy /etc/artanis to?
>
>
> I think you may try DESTDIR, some Debian folks suggested and added it.
>
> Best regards.


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