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

[Sylvain Beucler]

Apparently the builds went fine this time :)

https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=freedink

Thanks again!

- Sylvain

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:18:07PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 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: