Re: (ITS#5229) `make install' writes to the source tree as root

[mills@cc.umanitoba.ca]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:19:01PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> 
> Agreed, it should not be relinking, ever, but that's libtool. I've 
> submitted patches to libtool to correct this a number of times over the 
> past several years but the problem remains, and it's our policy to avoid 
> using customized OpenLDAP-specific versions of the GNU tools so we no 
> longer provide patched versions of libtool in our CVS.

Yes, I understand your frustration with libtool and I don't expect
OpenLDAP to include a patched version.  Still, the OpenLDAP Makefiles
could be modified to avoid libtool's relinking behavior.

> In the meantime, there's no reason for this to be affecting your source 
> tree. You can always build using an object tree separate from the source 
> tree. And you can always use "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/foo" on the build 
> system to create an alternate hierarchy that can then be copied to any 
> other machine.

I didn't realize that I could do that, but it's still second best.
Copying doesn't preserve an existing slapd.conf, for example.  `make
install' would be superior if it avoided writing to the source tree.
This is easy enough to accomplish if it's made part of the policy.

> Since there is no fundamental bug in OpenLDAP here, this ITS will be closed.

It's certainly not a bug in OpenLDAP, but just in the build and install
system that accompanies OpenLDAP.  I'd consider it a bug.

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-