Re: ANNOUNCE Support for XML

[Eric Bischoff <ebisch at cybercable dot tm dot fr>]

Le Lundi 13 Novembre 2000 07:08, Gregory Leblanc a écrit :
> > In the Makefile, you have the following:
> >       ...
> >       htmldir = $(docdir)/html/docbook-utils-0.6
> >       ...
> >       install-htmlDATA: $(html_DATA)
> >               ...
> >               $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)
> >                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > so the buildrooting is done outside of the "docdir" variable by autoconf
> > default behaviour.
>
> I don't really see how this works, but I'm not an auto* expert (yet).

Assume it is braindead. Did it? Okay, you did half of the way... ;-)

> > I know this is not logical, but I'm not responsible for that.
>
> Do you mean to say that I can't blame my autoconf problems on you?  :)

You haven't autoconf problems. Everyone has a problem with autoconf.

;-)

> > I encourage you to give a try at building once agin the package to check
> > what I'm saying.
>
> I know that this can be fixed somehow, as there are countless other
> packages that work.

It hasn't to be fixed, because it is not a problem. The only problem is that 
when you read the specfile it looks strange that mandir and docdir behave 
differently.

>  In it's current form, I am NOT able to build an
> RPM for the docbook-utils package unless I'm logged in as root.

???? What happens? Should not be needed.

>  The
> RPM guru's say that the only packages that you MUST be root to build are
> the kernel packages, because root access is required to create the DEV
> entries.  If you want info on building RPMs as non-root, let me know as
> I've got a short article on that. I'll post a message to the RPM-list
> tomorrow to see if they can help out.  Thanks,    Greg

No it should not be necessary. First tell me what's wrong with docbook-utils.

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