John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:23:16AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > > I was overconfident: the patch broke everything, because > Automake-generated makefiles typically try to mkdir $localstatedir: > > http://hydra.gnu.org/eval/45514 > > So I just reverted it, and I think we???re stuck with the status quo > until > someone has a better idea. > > So the status quo is, that these packages mkdir /nix/store.../var/com . > Presumably they do that for a reason, viz the program needs to write > to these directories.
Right. Apparently Automake doesn’t emit anything for packages that do not use the ‘localstate’ prefix. > But they will not be able to do that because /nix/store is immutable. > These programs will then break. :( Well, yes. > For the longer term, we could submit an Automake patch such that it > doesn???t insist on creating $localstatedir et al. > > That sounds like a good idea. In the meantime, couldn't we patch the > generated Makefile.in so that it will not die if the mkdir fails? Yes, as done for DBus for instance. Unfortunately, I don’t see any obvious way to do that patching automatically. Thanks, Ludo’.
