Re: Installation of git into home directory

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 18:10 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:01:44PM +0200, Markus Becker wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to have the distribution NetworkManager in the usual places on the disc and at the same time have a git NetworkManager in my home directory installed. (And the same for nm-applet.)
> > 
> > I was trying:
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/mab/install/usr --sysconfdir=/home/mab/install/etc --localstatedir=/home/mab/install/var
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/mab/install/usr --sysconfdir=/home/mab/install/etc --localstatedir=/home/mab/install/var --libdir=/home/mab/install/lib
> > 
> > Both times it tries to install something into /lib:
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/77-nm-olpc-mesh.rules': Permission denied
> 
> yes, thats kind of a biuld system bugs. i usually just run make
> install as root even though i install in my home as the few files not
> properly honouring --prefix are close enough if you hvae a recent
> netowrk-manager package. 
> 
> > 
> > Isn't this the supposed in-home-directory procedure? Or is $(LIBDIR) missing somewhere in the scripts?
> > 
> 
> Arguably those udev rules need to go where they currently go to become
> effective ... however, its not right to not honour the --prefix for
> those, so yes. its a bug imo.

That's what --with-udev-dir is for.  We can't use --prefix, because
normally prefix is /usr, and udev rules don't go into /usr/lib.  They go
into /lib.  Even on 64-bit systems, so we can't use --libdir either.
Hence --with-udev-dir.

Dan