Hi,
Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adf...@openmailbox.org> skribis:
> Tested the patch today
>
> It seems that, during the `install' phase, something tries to make
> "/etc/samba" directory.
[...]
> File
> "/tmp/guix-build-samba-4.5.1.drv-0/samba-4.5.1/third_party/waf/wafadmin/Utils.py",
> line 458, in check_dir
> raise WafError("Cannot create the folder '%s' (error: %s)" % (path, e))
> WafError: Cannot create the folder '/etc/samba' (error: [Errno 13] Permission
> denied: '/etc/samba')
>
> make: *** [Makefile:11: install] Error 1
> phase `install' failed after 0.5 seconds
That’s a common issue as I mentioned in
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24834#8> (‘sysconfdir’
corresponds to /etc here.)
Do address it, we need to modify Samba’s build system to not attempt to
create /etc. Samba uses Waf, so we’d have to comment out the Waf bit
that leads to this attempt to create /etc. I’m not familiar with Waf so
I’d “grep -r” in the source. :-)
Could you look into it?
There are similar cases in gnu/packages/*.scm but the fix always depends
on the specifics of the build system being used, so nothing that really
helps here I’m afraid.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
