Thanks, I already identified the bug and I think I'll make a new upstream release.
- Sylvain ----- Forwarded message from Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> ----- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:29:29 +0200 From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> To: bug-gnu...@gnu.org Cc: Sylvain Beucler <b...@beuc.net> Subject: Re: install-reloc error on Debian-hurd and Debian-kfreebsd User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Hi Sylvain, > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=freedink > > What happens, apparently, is that 'install-reloc' is called with > 'RELOC_STRIP_PROG= ' (i.e. == nothing). > [...]/autotools/install-reloc: 118: : Permission denied > > On line 118 I have: > test "$strip_prog" = ':' || func_verbose "$strip_prog" "$destprog$exeext" || > exit $? > ($strip_prog comes from earlier strip_prog=$RELOC_STRIP_PROG) Indeed this empty value of RELOC_STRIP_PROG is the problem. gnulib's NEWS file has this note: 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :. This was probably overlooked by some developer. But actually, there is no need for the maintainer to define this variable, since automake can do it. I'm applying this followup to <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-01/msg00162.html>. 2010-04-19 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> relocatable: Drop the need to define RELOCATABLE_STRIP in Makefile.am. * m4/relocatable.m4 (gl_RELOCATABLE_BODY): Set RELOCATABLE_STRIP. Reported by Sylvain Beucler <b...@beuc.net>. --- m4/relocatable.m4.orig Tue Apr 20 00:24:18 2010 +++ m4/relocatable.m4 Tue Apr 20 00:24:14 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# relocatable.m4 serial 14 +# relocatable.m4 serial 15 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -76,9 +76,15 @@ dnl RELOCATABLE_LIBRARY_PATH can be set in configure.ac. Default is empty. AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_LIBRARY_PATH]) + AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_CONFIG_H_DIR]) AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_SRC_DIR]) AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_BUILD_DIR]) + + dnl Ensure RELOCATABLE_STRIP is defined in Makefiles (at least those + dnl generated by automake), with value ':'. + RELOCATABLE_STRIP=':' + AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_STRIP]) ]) dnl Determine the platform dependent parameters needed to use relocatability: ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
