On 12/2/18 11:02 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 3/12/18 11:44 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
bash-completion uses pkg-config to determine the best installation directory, but this does not take --prefix into account (although it works fine with DESTDIR). The fallback value does attempt to set this based on --prefix.
The distcheck uses --prefix, though, which means when attempting to install the results and bash-completion support for pkg-config was detected, it errors out on trying to write to, usually, /usr/share.
Tell distcheck to use the prefix-based fallback location instead, as the PKG_CHECK_* override.
What has changed here? "make distcheck" has been working for me... What configure line do you use to generate the error?
It's a fun error! You only get it when you *do* have bash-completion installed, since then we rely directly on the pkg-config file to determine where to install things to. That's why we need to override it when the pkg-config specified directory is not writable by the distcheck user. Of course, the other solution would be if distcheck used DESTDIR instead of specifying a custom --prefix, but this is enforced by autotools... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User