GNU bug report logs - #11737
Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:51:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 24.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:47:26 -0500

It looks like there may be a problem with the interaction between
DESTDIR and infodir in 24.1.  You can see the problem by running
something like this after a configure and make:

  make DESTDIR=/some/where infodir=/forbidden/place/ install

Assuming you don't have access to /forbidden/, the install process will
fail in doc/misc here:

  mkinfodir = @cd ${srcdir}; test -d ${infodir} || mkdir ${infodir} || test -d ${infodir}

because the infodir setting (without modification by DESTDIR) will be
passed down from ./Makefile.in and override the doc/misc/Makefile.in
setting:

  infodir=../../info

I would guess that either doc/misc/Makefile.in should respect DESTDIR,
or this bit of ./Makefile.in:

  info-real:
	(cd doc/misc; $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info)

should either unset infodir before calling $(MAKE), or should specify an
infodir that respects DESTDIR.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 11737-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11737: Setting DESTDIR and infodir breaks doc/misc/Makefile.in
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:10:31 -0400

Version: 24.2

I renamed $infodir to $buildinfodir in doc/*/Makefile.in, since it has
no relation to the $infodir used by install.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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