I'm currently trying to resurrect ghc.spec.in after all those build system changes in the last few months. One thing I'm currently fighting with is the totally obscure non-standard logic regarding the handling of build/install prefixes. Just to recap what is needed for sane (non-relocatable) RPM builds:
a) "configure" gets a "--prefix" option, stating where the package should be installed later (normally "/usr"). b) "make" builds everything, baking in absolute paths based on "--prefix" if necessary. c) "make install" gets an additional argument "prefix=/var/foo/usr" (where "/var/foo" is some temporary place and "/usr" is what was stated in the configure stage for "--prefix"), so everything gets installed below "/var/foo/usr". After some checks "rpmbuild" picks up the files there, but nevertheless the resulting stuff gets installed below "/usr" later. If I see things correctly, the current build system mixes b) and c) a little bit, baking in the prefix given in the install phase, which is totally wrong for RPM builds as outlined above. Any hints how to proceed? What is the rationale behind the current confusing logic? I can't be the first one to experience this problem. :-( A completely different sad story is the handling of the Haddock docs, but this is a concern only when GHC itself is working... Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
