[M3devel] M3Config contains paths to installation directory.

[Jay K]

> I have workaround for it (as Jay did not accept my report as a bug).
 
I believe I fixed it.
 
 - Jay





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> From: dragisha at m3w.org
> To: eiserlohpp at yahoo.com
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:17:47 +0200
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] M3Config contains paths to installation directory.
>
> cm3 -?
> ...
>> CM3_INSTALL_PREFIX path prefix to prepend to filenames being installed,
>> "make DESTDIR=" behaviour for cm3
>>
>
> This is one patch I've introduced earlier and it's excellent conduit for
> RPM packaging scripts I develop. I am using it like this:
>
>
>> export CM3_INSTALL_PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>>
>> ./scripts/do-pkg.sh realclean m3core libm3
>>
>> ./scripts/do-pkg.sh buildship m3core libm3
>>
>
> Please let me know if your script fails on you mentioning mkdir failure.
> I have workaround for it (as Jay did not accept my report as a bug).
>
>
> I'll put my RPM script in repository RSN.
>
> dd
>
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 18:19 -0700, Peter Eiserloh wrote:
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> Do you know of any way to tell the build system that the
>> final installation directory is located in one place, but
>> that the software is to actually be shipped (temporarily)
>> to a staging directory.
>>
>> Specifically, libm3/src/config contains a m3makefile that
>> derives the M3Config interface, containing a number of
>> paths to the installation root directory.
>>
>> This is the normal situation for most people, but I am
>> installing to a temporary directory, for packaging purposes.
>> The packaging software later installs the package into
>> the correct location.
>>
>> Whenever I build the system, M3Config always contains
>> the paths to my staging area.
>>
>> I would like some way of specifying to the build system
>> that the final (or real) installation root is one thing,
>> but "ship" would actually install into a different one.
>>
>>
>>
>> +--------------------------------------------------------+
>> | Peter P. Eiserloh |
>> +--------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>
>>
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> Dragiša Durić 
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