[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

| Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| | Greetings!  OK, should be optional now.  Please let me know if not.
| 
| Camm --
| 
|   Thanks for the quick fix.
| 
| Now, the build progressed further but still I hit a regression when I
| try to install it in a specifc location (it worked with earlier versions):
| 
|     make[4]: [gcl-si.info] Error 1 (ignored)
|     make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/gdr/build/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.8pre/info'
|     make[4]: Entering directory `/home/gdr/build/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.8pre/info'
|     mkdir -p /usr/share/info/
|     [ -f /usr/share/info/dir ] || touch /usr/share/info/dir
|     grep gcl-si /usr/share/info/dir >/dev/null 2>&1 || \
|     echo "* GCL Doc: (gcl-si.info). GNU Common Lisp specific Documentation." 
>> /usr/share/info/dir
|     /bin/sh: /usr/share/info/dir: Permission denied
|     make[4]: *** [install] Error 1
| 
| My preliminary analysis is that GCL is insisting to install info files
| in a directory (/usr/share/info) which is not part of what is
| specified as --prefix and on which I do not have a write permission
| (and even if I had a write permission, it would still be wrong).

In configure.in, GCL as a machinery to check for where to install the
info files.  With a default value as $prefix/share/info.  That is perfect.
However, down the road, GCL changes its mind and wanted to know
whether /usr/share/info/dir exits, and if it does then it would install the
info files there.  That is not right.

    if  test -f "${INFO_DIR}dir"  ; then true;else
    if test -f /usr/share/info/dir ; then
      INFO_DIR=/usr/share/info/
    else true;
    fi
    fi

I'll be checking in a patch that removes that.

-- Gaby