DESTDIR=xxx make install fails

[Christian Speckner]

Autotoolized build systems allow for a staged install into an arbitrary directory DESTDIR the above syntax, which is a very handy feature for deploying the installation - the staging tree can be tarred and then untarred on the target systems (I also, mistakenly, referred to this in my comment to #181 - DESTDIR= and prefix= are different things). I didn't notice as I always had write permission to the prefix before, but this is actually broken in WHIZARD: make tries to install the O'Mega caches into the real prefix, not into the staging directory. sed-hacking around this in the Makefiles allows the staged install to complete, so this is the only issue here.

[Christian Speckner]

Bump - seems no mail was trigger on creation, let's see if this does the trick.

[Boschmann]

This might look like a minor problem, but it is important. You need this feature to make a rpm or deb package and we are setting up the jenkins CC-server for comparing "known" branching rations with results from different whizard setups. Thus I would like to use DESTDIR= in the way Carsten described above to deploy different whizard installations to different nodes of the batch system.

[Juergen Reuter]

JRR confirmed this. Investigating...

[Juergen Reuter]

Next thing I noticed is that when you do DESTDIR=/foo make install then the installation goes to

   /foo/${prefix}

i.e. for the default

   /foo/usr/local

Just a dumb question: is this intended? I mean should I not expect the bin directory to be in /foo/bin, instead of /foo/${prefix}/bin ?

[Boschmann]

Yes, that's intended.

[Juergen Reuter]

I think I found the very issue of the problem, have to run make/make check/make distcheck in different varying configurations to check.

[Juergen Reuter]

Solved (partially) in r3062. configure, DESTDIR=foo make, DESTDIR=foo make check, DESTDIR=foo make install now works as intended, DESTDIR=foo make installcheck fails because the libraries are hard-coded and cannot be found, of course. For the same reason, configure --prefix=foo, DESTDIR=foo make, DESTDIR=foo make install, DESTDIR=foo make installcheck fails in the last step. If there is need to improve on that we can reopen the ticket.