Re: gdbm-1.8.0

[Tim Mooney]

In article <address@hidden>,
Warren L Dodge <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> /gdbm-1.8.0/configure --prefix=/proj/wdt/gnu_$ARCH/gdbm-1.8.0
> 
> Did not pay attention to the --prefix

There have been several patches posted regarding this problem.  One of
them is:


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On Nov  1, 1999, address@hidden (Greg Obremski) wrote:

> 9:58am Mon 11/01 address@hidden /usr/local/src/gdbm-1.8.0# make install
> /bin/sh ./libtool install -c libgdbm.la /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.la
> install -c .libs/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0
> cp: cannot access /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0
> install: cp /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 
> .libs/libgdbm.so.2.0.0/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 failed 

> Needless to say, this is Not Good(tm) :)

> Whats goin on? 

It's a bug in gdbm's Makefile.  Here's the patch I made up to fix it:


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--- Makefile.in Wed May 19 00:16:06 1999
+++ Makefile.in Mon Oct  4 15:02:19 1999
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 LDFLAGS =
 
 # Common prefix for installation directories
-prefix = /usr/local
-exec_prefix = $(prefix)
+prefix = @prefix@
+exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
 binprefix = $(exec_prefix)
 manprefix = $(prefix)
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 
 install: libgdbm.la gdbm.h gdbm.info
        $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(libdir) $(includedir) $(man3dir) $(infodir)
-       $(LIBTOOL) install -c libgdbm.la $(libdir)/libgdbm.la
+       $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(INSTALL) libgdbm.la $(libdir)/libgdbm.la
        $(INSTALL_DATA) -o $(BINOWN) -g $(BINGRP) gdbm.h $(includedir)/gdbm.h
        $(INSTALL_DATA) -o $(BINOWN) -g $(BINGRP) $(srcdir)/gdbm.3 \
                $(man3dir)/gdbm.3

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