Odd build script bit causing problem

[Guest Guest_njw_*]

Hi again,

 

I'm working on making a gentoo ebuild of this; as with the liflg games I know it's a little early to be doing such things, but I thought it'd be interesting, so here it is.

 

I should note that I'm not particularly knowledgable about automake/autoconf.

 

There are a couple of lines right at the end of the current Makefile.in which are causing problems to gentoo when I try to install that way, notably 656-657:

 

mkdir -p $(bindir)/Cache 2>/dev/null
rm -rf $(bindir)/Cache/*

 

Gentoo dislikes this ardently, complaining of an "Access Violation" in performing the mkdir -p /usr/bin/Cache

 

My question is: what's the use of these lines? As I say I'm not very familiar with automake except from the user's end, but I don't see how they make sense...

 

As with all of my posts, forgive my ignorance...

[njw]

Thought I'd better add: 1st, that was me, I forgot to sign in..

Secondly, I could probably work around what seems to be gentoo's pedanticity, I just don't see why the make process is scripted so (as it appears to me) oddly.

[Avenger]

Do you have access rights to that directory when installing?

If you want to install there you most likely have to have root access.

It is advised to install to ~/GemRB (especially in the development phase)

 

Those two lines make sure that a Cache directory exists, but empty.

[Guest wjp]

mkdir -p $(bindir)/Cache 2>/dev/null
rm -rf $(bindir)/Cache/*

 

Change these lines (and the one above it) to

 

rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/plugins/libgemrb_core.so
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Cache 2>/dev/null
rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Cache/*

 

I'll commit this to CVS as well.

[njw]

Change these lines (and the one above it) to

 

rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/plugins/libgemrb_core.so
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Cache 2>/dev/null
rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Cache/*

 

That did the trick, thank you