Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[bsquared <bwcode4u gmail com>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Interesting approach there.
>
> > Does that make sense?  Is it possible?
>
> Have you tried using './configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc' for
> jhbuild?

That was a good suggestion.  I should have though of that myself, but no 
go.  After './comfigure ; make && make install', I run
'jhbuild shell' and it still has error:

jhbuild [ ~ ]$ jhbuild shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 31, in <module>
    jhbuild.main.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/main.py", line 130, in 
main
    config = jhbuild.config.Config(options.configfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/config.py", line 194, 
in __init__
    self.setup_env()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/config.py", line 448, 
in setup_env
    os.makedirs(gconfpathdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/etc'


I find it odd. On my host system (Ubuntu lucid) jhbuild was installed to 
~/.local, but there are no other 'etc' directories either under ~/.local 
or /usr.

Out of curiosity I created /etc/usr and ran 'jhbuild shell' as above. 
It succeeded.  I then listed the directory:

bash-4.2$ find /usr/etc -exec stat {} \;
  File: `/usr/etc'
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 811h/2065d	Inode: 319934      Links: 3
Access: (1775/drwxrwxr-t)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: ( 9999/ install)
Access: 2011-05-07 14:14:11.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
 Birth: -
  File: `/usr/etc/gconf'
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 811h/2065d	Inode: 319936      Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (10073/ jhbuild)   Gid: (10062/   gnome)
Access: 2011-05-07 14:14:54.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
 Birth: -
  File: `/usr/etc/gconf/2'
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 811h/2065d	Inode: 319940      Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (10073/ jhbuild)   Gid: (10062/   gnome)
Access: 2011-05-07 14:15:10.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
 Birth: -


On my host system these are in /etc.

I would like to avoid having /usr/etc.  Any suggestions?

-Brian