Re: [Libguestfs] "make distcheck" failure
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:46:49PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
In Makefile.am files, installation-related rules
must honor the $(prefix) Makefile variable. For example,
in many Makefiles you'll find files being installed to
$(DESTDIR)$(bindir), with these definitions:
bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
Currently, $(OCAMLLIB) (set from m4/ocaml.m4 by running $OCAMLC) is set
to /usr/lib64/ocaml for me. If we could make it include $(exec_prefix),
that would solve this problem.
I see. Not an easy one to solve however. The OCaml library path
comes from running:
$OCAMLC -where
This is not an (especially) peculiar OCaml thing. For example we
detect the Python library path using:
$PYTHON -c "import distutils.sysconfig; \
print (distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc ());"
This allows multiple parallel Python installations to get along on
Debian. The user just specifies the $PYTHON binary and everything
works off that. So I'm fairly sure the same bug exists in some
Python, Perl and Ruby code in libguestfs too.
Rich.
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