Re: install-reloc error on Debian-hurd and Debian-kfreebsd

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks, I'll make a new release with an updated gnulib and see how
this goes :)

- Sylvain

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:29:29AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=freedink
> > 
> > What happens, apparently, is that 'install-reloc' is called with
> > 'RELOC_STRIP_PROG= ' (i.e. == nothing).
> > [...]/autotools/install-reloc: 118: : Permission denied
> > 
> > On line 118 I have:
> > test "$strip_prog" = ':' || func_verbose "$strip_prog" "$destprog$exeext" 
> > || exit $?
> > ($strip_prog comes from earlier strip_prog=$RELOC_STRIP_PROG)
> 
> Indeed this empty value of RELOC_STRIP_PROG is the problem. gnulib's NEWS 
> file has
> this note:
> 
>   2009-01-17  relocatable-prog  In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now 
> also
>                               need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
> 
> This was probably overlooked by some developer. But actually, there is no
> need for the maintainer to define this variable, since automake can do it.
> I'm applying this followup to
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-01/msg00162.html>.
> 
> 
> 2010-04-19  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
> 
>       relocatable: Drop the need to define RELOCATABLE_STRIP in Makefile.am.
>       * m4/relocatable.m4 (gl_RELOCATABLE_BODY): Set RELOCATABLE_STRIP.
>       Reported by Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>.
> 
> --- m4/relocatable.m4.orig    Tue Apr 20 00:24:18 2010
> +++ m4/relocatable.m4 Tue Apr 20 00:24:14 2010
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# relocatable.m4 serial 14
> +# relocatable.m4 serial 15
>  dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
>  dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
> @@ -76,9 +76,15 @@
>  
>    dnl RELOCATABLE_LIBRARY_PATH can be set in configure.ac. Default is empty.
>    AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_LIBRARY_PATH])
> +
>    AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_CONFIG_H_DIR])
>    AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_SRC_DIR])
>    AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_BUILD_DIR])
> +
> +  dnl Ensure RELOCATABLE_STRIP is defined in Makefiles (at least those
> +  dnl generated by automake), with value ':'.
> +  RELOCATABLE_STRIP=':'
> +  AC_SUBST([RELOCATABLE_STRIP])
>  ])
>  
>  dnl Determine the platform dependent parameters needed to use relocatability:
>