Hi Ralph, On Wed, Sep 24 2014 at 09:31:00 AM, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Bertrand, > >> 'make distcheck' will attempt to make a tarball, untar it, build it >> (in out-of-source tree style), clean it, check it, install it and >> uninstall it. >> >> You can use DESTDIR to make the install/uninstall in an ordinary >> directory, e.g.: >> mkdir ~/tmp >> make distcheck DESTDIR=~/tmp/ > > I'm very surprised that the `install' run as part of `distcheck' wants > to install in the default central location and not a temporary > directory. No one would seriously want the install run in that manner > to do that? It's not how I recall distcheck working. Is this the > default behaviour? Can it be changed to be a temporary directory, just > as the tarball is untarred somewhere temporary?
You are right. 'make distcheck' attempts to install in a temporary directory, something like (if 'build' is your build directory) build/groff-1.22.2/_inst/. However, groff's original build system inconditionally installs GXditview and GXditview-color in /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults (appresdir), no matter what prefix you put, and I sticked to this behaviour. That's why in Bernd's log it looks like 'make distcheck' was trying to install in /usr. Thats'also why I had to use DESTDIR when calling 'make distcheck'. Regards, -- Bertrand Garrigues
