Re: Installing in a staging area

[Schleicher Ralph (LLI)]

Charles Gagnon writes:

> I am having a hard time installing apps in a staging area. What I am
> trying to do is this:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> make
> make prefix=/usr/local/staging/appname install
> 
> The purpose is to package everything in /usr/local/staging/appname
> to be later installed in /usr/local on multiple systems. This use to
> work but now, whenever I try I get:
> 
> libtool: install: error: cannot install `libpixbufloader-wbmp.la' to
> a directory not ending in /usr/local/lib/

Hi Charles,

I encountered the same error message when building software within
my MinGW/MSYS cross-compilation environment.  I wasn't able to trace
down the problem in ltmain.sh so I decided to hack libtool from
outside.  All problems went away after I've appended the following
commands to my build script:

        list=`awk '{print $4}' $files | grep '\.la$'`
        for i in $list ; do
            sed -e "s|^dependency_libs=.*|dependency_libs=''|" -e 
"s|$destdir||g" $i > $i~
            if cmp $i $i~ > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
                rm -f $i~
            else
                rm -f $i
                mv $i~ $i
            fi
        done

$files points to a file containing all the files installed by a
package.  $destdir points to the directory of the staging area.

I know that I loose all dependency information but I don't care
about it (they were wrong anyway).

-- 
Ralph