No consistancy in Make variable names

No consistancy in Make variable names

[Dale Amon]

I'm trying to modify the Makefile's for building
to a target build directory and/or an install time
selected destination, ie /usr vs /usr/local.

The biggest difficulty I'm having is a lack of
consistancy in labeling. DESTDIR means one thing
in one of the makefiles and something entirely
different in another.

It really would be a good idea to clean up this
nomenclature.

I was going to use DESTDIR for the target root
and BASEDIR for the location of selinux; I've just
run into other uses of DESTDIR that will force me
to start over with a less standard labelling.

util is the biggest hassle to modify needless to
say.

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Re: No consistancy in Make variable names

[Dale Amon]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:24:08AM +0000, Dale Amon wrote:
> I was going to use DESTDIR for the target root
> and BASEDIR for the location of selinux; I've just
> run into other uses of DESTDIR that will force me
> to start over with a less standard labelling.
> 
> util is the biggest hassle to modify needless to
> say.

I might add that I'm getting close. I've a patch 
that sets all of the makefiles to allow use of
	BUILDDIR
and/or
	SBASEDIR
which default to
	BUILDDIR=
	SBASEDIR=$(BUILDDIR)/usr/local 

I'll have to run down loads of probs yet I'm sure, but
I'm close to getting everything installed relative to
a buildroot rather than /.

I just know there will be a few compiled in paths to
sort out and I'm already suspicious of the USRSBINDIR
setting in MCONFIG but haven't checked what it is doing
yet.

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Re: No consistancy in Make variable names

[Stephen Smalley]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Dale Amon wrote:

> The biggest difficulty I'm having is a lack of
> consistancy in labeling. DESTDIR means one thing
> in one of the makefiles and something entirely
> different in another.
>
> It really would be a good idea to clean up this
> nomenclature.

This isn't a priority for us, but we'll gratefully accept patches to make
the Makefiles consistent.  While you can freely modify the Makefiles that
are completely "new" in SELinux, you should seek to minimize changes to
the Makefiles for the modified daemons and utilities, since we would like
to keep the patches against these packages small and to the point.

--
Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com




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