Re: [gnome-db]libgda RPM re-build (patch)

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 14 Aug 2001 15:17:08 +0300, Pavel Polischouk wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As a common practice I rebuild all RPMS that don't come as part of 
> RedHat distribution. And I also do it as non-root user. I tried to 
> rebuild the libgda package and it complained about permission denied on 
> copying files to system directories. (RPM build process should only 
> install under RPM_BUILD_ROOT). There turned out to be 2 problems:
> 1. Perl install system does not use DESTDIR variable, it should be given 
> PREFIX variable. (note uppercase - setting this variable does not break 
> the automake installation).
> 2. install-*-local automake targets in several directores didn't use 
> DESTDIR either.
> 
thanks for the patch. I'll review as soon as possible and apply it.

> Patch that fixes these problems attached. Applies cleanly to 0.2.10 release.
> 
> Among other things that I noticed, but didn't fix in this patch, is that 
> `make distclean' doesn't work in Perl subdirectories (should be mapped 
> to Perl's `realclean' target) and in some providers dirs (does not 
> remove Makefile in all of them and objects/libs in gda-default-server.
>
this is not a problem anymore, since the Perl bindings have been moved
to its own CVS module/tarball/package.

thanks
 
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