Re: [gtk-osx-users] Trouble building meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 21, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Brian Hamilton-Vise <bdhamilton gmail com> wrote:

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> On Oct 21, 2012, at 3:41 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
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>>> First, when it tries to install zlib, I get the error: `cp: /usr/local/lib/libz.a: Permission denied.` I dropped into the shell and ran `sudo make install`. That seemed to work. (I also tried just temporarily making myself the owner to /usr/local/lib/, with less luck.)
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>> Something's wrong there. It didn't get prefix set correctly (/usr/local is the default). It should be installing where everything else is going (~/gtk/inst unless you changed it in .jhbuildrc-custom). I just did a check-build of zlib and it installed in the right place, so I'm at a bit of a loss about how it configured wrong.
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> I haven't changed anything in .jhbuildrc-custom. But I went back and re-ran some things, and I realized I left out a step I had taken. If I delete both ~/gtk/source/pkgs/zlib[…] and ~/gtk/source/zlib[…], and then run `jhbuild build zlib`, my first error actually looks like this: 
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> *** Building zlib *** [1/1]
> make  
> Please use ./configure first.  Thank you.
> *** Installing zlib *** [1/1]
> make install
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> *** Error during phase install of zlib: ########## \
>     Error running make install *** [1/1]
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> I get the same thing if I delete those files and then try to build Gramps. The first time, after I had gotten that error, I dropped into shell and ran `configure`, then `make`, then `make install`—and then I got the 'Permission denied' error. Is it installing the wrong place because I ran the configure script without the right prefix flags? If so, how do I add the right ones?

Yes. Say
./configure --prefix=$PREFIX

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>> Don't keep going when you hit an error!
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> Ha, sorry! I thought I had sorted out which were dependency errors and which weren't, and I was anxious about littering everyone's inboxes with error after error. But I take this point. I will henceforth stop when I hit an error.
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There are very few "non-dependency" errors. I try not to have anything in the build chains that doesn't need to be there for *some* reason. Having said that, I should remove WebKit…

Regards,
John Ralls