2006-08-23 23:25:59 +02:00
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I built ikiwiki using
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% perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/ed
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% make
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% make install
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This installs the files under /home/ed, for example one of the lines it prints is
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cp -a basewiki/* /home/ed/share/ikiwiki/basewiki
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However when I try to run ikiwiki I get an error as follows:
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% ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ --url=http://membled.com/wiki/
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Can't stat /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki: No such file or directory
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at /home/ed/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/IkiWiki/Render.pm line 349
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2006-08-24 22:28:08 +02:00
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The PREFIX specified at build time should also affect the share directory -
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it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here.
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2006-09-04 05:46:47 +02:00
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> Actually, the PREFIX, no matter where you specify it, is only
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> intended to control where files are _installed_, not where they're
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> looked for at runtime.
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2006-08-24 22:28:08 +02:00
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2006-09-04 05:46:47 +02:00
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> There's a good reason not to make PREFIX be used to actually
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> change the program's behavior: Most packaging systems use PREFIX
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> when building the package, to make it install into a temporary
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> directory which gets packaged up.
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2006-08-24 22:28:08 +02:00
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2006-08-25 00:48:49 +02:00
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This is not the case. That is the difference between PREFIX and DESTDIR.
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DESTDIR does what you describe; it causes the files to be installed into some
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directory you specify, which may not be the same place you'd eventually
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run it from.
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PREFIX means build the software to run under the location given. Normally it
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will also affect the location files are copied to, so that 'make install'
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installs a working system.
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At least, that's the way I've always understood it; the MakeMaker documentation
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isn't entirely clear (perhaps because ordinary Perl modules do not need to be
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configured at build time depending on the installation directory). It does mention
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that DESTDIR is the thing used by packaging tools.
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2006-09-04 05:46:47 +02:00
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> Thanks for clarifying that. [[bugs/done]] --[[Joey]]
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