Re: javahl - why would, or wouldn't I need it?

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:16:09PM -0600, Steve Cohen wrote:
| Hi, Mark, after spending way too much time trying to build SVN from
| source (but finally succeeding!) I return to the original problem:
| installing javahl. Again, No Joy in Mudville. See below.
|
| The problem seems to be that after the library is successfully made, the
| make-install that's been pulled from the source rpm seems to want to
| install the library in /usr/local/lib (where did THAT come from?) and
| Red Hat won't let me do that.
|
| Where did that come from?

Typically the default "prefix" is /usr/local. This can be overridden
by specifying '--prefix=/whatever' to the configure script.

| Well, there's a line in makefile that says
| prefix = /usr/local

This is put there by the configure script.

| so maybe if I just change it to
| prefix = /usr I'll be okay?

Maybe, but the configure script may have generated more than one
makefile so you would need to change all of them. It is easier to
rerun configure with the desired --prefix argument.

| libtool: install: error: cannot install `libsvn_delta-1.la' to a
| directory not ending in /usr/lib
|
| Do you know what this one is about?

Ask redhat. I know the libtool on my debian machine doesn't have any
such qualms about obeying the user ;-).

| Somehow, the RPM installer figures out where to put the lib but the
| make-install run off the same sources does not.

I think the rpm build installs in a sandbox, of sorts, then gathers up
the files to put them in the package. When the package is installed
the files are unpacked under '/' instead of under the sandbox. I know
that debian package builds do this.

-D

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