On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:38:27PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote: > 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.
Exactly which paths are getting baked in where? If it's the libraries causing problems then I think we need to set a CopyDest in installPackage.hs. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
