On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:59:11AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
Hi Rich,
I ran these commands as non-root:
./autogen.sh && make && make distcheck
It got most of the way through, but failed in the VPATH part while rebuilding from a ./_build subdir, like this:
make[4]: Entering directory `/h/j/w/co/hivex/hivex-1.3.6/_build/ocaml' mkdir -p /usr/lib64/ocaml mkdir -p /usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs ocamlfind install \ -ldconf ignore -destdir /usr/lib64/ocaml \ hivex \ META *.so *.a *.cma *.cmi ../../ocaml/*.mli *.cmx *.cmxa ocamlfind: Cannot mkdir /usr/lib64/ocaml/hivex: Permission denied make[4]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/h/j/w/co/hivex/hivex-1.3.6/_build/ocaml' make[3]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/h/j/w/co/hivex/hivex-1.3.6/_build/ocaml' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/h/j/w/co/hivex/hivex-1.3.6/_build/ocaml' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/h/j/w/co/hivex/hivex-1.3.6/_build' make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
Obviously, it should not be trying to create directories under /usr.
The rule in the Makefile.am is: install-data-hook: mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(OCAMLLIB) mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(OCAMLLIB)/stublibs $(OCAMLFIND) install \ -ldconf ignore -destdir $(DESTDIR)$(OCAMLLIB) \ $(PACKAGE_NAME) \ $(install_files) So that must mean that DESTDIR is not being set. There are also environment variables that ocamlfind itself will use (see findlib.conf(5)). Although they don't appear to be relevant here it may be worth looking at that man page. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora