Bug 4926 – CommonC++ 1.9.7 ebuild installs includes in wrong directory

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Olav Kolbu 2002-07-12 16:31:39 UTC]

emerging CommonC++ 1.9.7 installs include-files under /include/cc++ instead of
/usr/include/cc++/. Not entirely sure why this is happening, as the ebuild-file
appears to be doing the right thing, but it does. :-)

[Comment 1 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2002-07-13 05:27:30 UTC]

Try to emerge rsync and emerge over again it works fine on my machine and
installs the includes in /usr

[Comment 2 Olav Kolbu 2002-07-13 11:23:52 UTC]

Let's try again, this time with a bit more ground work.

The configure script is run with the proper --prefix=/usr argument, so that part
is okay. However, when it comes to installing, the src_install() function in the
ebuild-file does not take the agreed upon prefix into account. It simply does:

src_install () {

    make prefix=${D} install || die
    dodoc AUTHORS INSTALL NEWS OVERVIEW.TXT ChangeLog\
                  README THANKS TODO COPYING COPYING.addendum
        dohtml doc/*
}

That first line should read

    make prefix=${D}/usr install || die

Otherwise, it will override the initial prefix-assignment from configure and
install it effectively with prefix /. My guess is that your /include is
symlinked to /usr/include so that you do not see the problem.

*Every* other ebuild-file that does installs this way has the extra /usr tagged
on at the end here, except commonc++. Check them out.

[Comment 3 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2002-07-13 17:08:28 UTC]

Well I will leave this open for additional comments.. if you want.. I bumpped up
to r1

[Comment 4 Olav Kolbu 2002-07-14 04:32:14 UTC]

going from prefix=${D} to DESTDIR=${D} in the r1 fix solved the problem, so you
can close this one.

[Comment 5 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2002-07-14 07:08:30 UTC]

Thanx for the quick reply.. it's much appriciated

naz