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Bug 728146 - Can't change {prefix} for custom installation
Can't change {prefix} for custom installation
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gobject-introspection
Classification: Platform
Component: build
2.40.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gobject-introspection Maintainer(s)
gobject-introspection Maintainer(s)
: 639782 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-04-14 03:02 UTC by Daniel Espinosa
Modified: 2018-01-25 17:06 UTC
See Also:
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Description Daniel Espinosa 2014-04-14 03:02:59 UTC 
By introspection.m4 we have:

INTROSPECTION_GIRDIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=girdir gobject-introspection-1.0`


this makes that any configuration with custom --prefix set at ./configure will install always at the one set in gobject-introspection-1.0.pc for variable girdir.

We need to change introspection.m4 to:

INTROSPECTION_GIRDIR=$datadir/gir-1.0
INTROSPECTION_TYPELIBDIR=$libdir/girepository-1.0

All this makes that any make distcheck to fail, because it tries to install in a custom directory and uninstall, but with no privileges, will fail.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-02-07 17:22:32 UTC 
[Mass-moving gobject-introspection tickets to its own Bugzilla product - see bug 708029. Mass-filter your bugmail for this message: introspection20150207 ]
Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2018-01-25 16:48:56 UTC 
You should always install in your own prefix, and modify the XDG_DATA_DIRS and GI_TYPELIB_PATH to include your newly added prefix.
Comment 3 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2018-01-25 17:06:11 UTC 
*** Bug 639782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***