Re: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Bug report, from guile-ncurses, make check

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 09:31:30AM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
     On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 08:18:18AM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
     > Another thing, if I give to ./configure --prefix=/somewhere/else, it
     > still asks guile where to install itself. In my opinion it should not,
     > as --prefix is enough of a command telling it to install somewhere
     > else. So I need to add the command: --with-gnu-filesystem-hierarchy
     > that --prefix work. For me is that incorrect and not necessary.
     > 
     > Further, I did not find references to "GNU Filesystem Hierarchy". I
     > wish I could have it. What is it? Where is it? I am not following the
     > FSH and building a system from source, so this may be interesting or
     > not. 
     
     The above shall be corrected to be in accordance with GNU Coding
     Standards: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html
     
     I am using GNU Stow, so packages get placed in /package, and /usr is
     created by using symlinks, and I don't expect to have additional
     configuration like --with-gnu-filesystem-hierarchy in order for
     --prefix to work. --prefix alone should be enough.
     
     I guess that option --with-gnu-filesystem-hierarchy including the help
     output from ./configure --help in regards to "GNU Filesystem
     Hierarchy" shall be removed. GNU systems shall be free of some imposed
     standards or rules. That is why there is --prefix and other directory
     specifications, so that everybody can freely decide where and how to
     install packages.
     

I tend to agree with Jean's point of view, but wouldn't have put it so 
strongly.

I think it non-optimal, that even after passing --prefix=$HOME/xxxx to
configure, then make install fails due to lack of write permission on
/usr/local/share/guile/site.

So I agree that the behviour under --with-gnu-filesystem-hierarchy ought
to be the default and the user should pass --without-... if they
don't want that.    But I'm happy for the option to exist, if users outside
GNU find it usefull.

Just my $0.02

J'



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