On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Peter Foley <pefol...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here are some patches for various problems I encountered while building > > libreoffice. > > > > 0002... > > >From 913ba23fd2552436c7c48e83fd1d6ec7de6c2e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >From: Peter Foley <pefol...@verizon.net> > >Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 21:39:22 -0400 > >Subject: [PATCH 2/7] /usr/local/lib > > > >If /usr/local/lib doesn't exist the Mozilla build fails. > >This patch fixes the build failure. > > Is that an observed behavior or a speculated one ?
Observed. I've atached the relevent logfile. > > I mean: > 1/ why on earth would our build ever try to create or even install > something in /usr/loca/bin when building an external lib. if we do, > then the fix is to stop that madness, not encourage it :-) Yeah, I'll try to come up with a better fix then this admittedly somewhat hacky one. > 2/ if /usr/local/bin does not exist mkdir -p is not going to succeed > anymore than $(MKDIR), unless you run make as root or have g+w or o+w > authorization on /usr, both of which are a really, really bad idea. I'm actually building libreoffice in a chroot but I agree that a better fix is probably necessary. Feel free to drop this patch for now and I'll try to come up with a better solution. Thanks, Peter
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