URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64059>
Summary: 'make install' fails when you build on a different
directory
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Mon 17 Apr 2023 04:39:45 AM UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Build/Installation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 17 Apr 2023 04:39:45 AM UTC By: Anonymous
Hi. I tried building groff from source and failed at the make install step.
what i did was:
$ ./bootstrap
#works fine
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=$PWD
# succesful.
# $PWD might not be the best destination directory for an actual build but for
the purpose of reproducing this error this i guess is ok.
$ make
# builds succesfully
$ make install
# fails with an error that I forgot to record properly (sorry)
the problem was with the file doc/groff.txt, which for some reason is being
searched for in the source root's doc directory, not in my build/doc
directory. copying the build/doc/groff.txt file the source's root doc fixed
that.
I also tried with a patch and it seems to work, but i warn you, autoconf is
just magical incantations for me, i dont know really what i am doing here.
diff --git a/doc/doc.am b/doc/doc.am
index cddc51907..78a2a4e45 100644
--- a/doc/doc.am
+++ b/doc/doc.am
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ install-data-local: install-txt
install-txt:
-test -d $(DESTDIR)$(docdir) \
|| $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)
- cp $(top_srcdir)/doc/groff.txt $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)
+ cp $(doc_builddir)/groff.txt $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)
install-data-local: install_infodoc
install_infodoc: doc/groff.info
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