Re: Re: xenning gentoo

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org>]

Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Barry G wrote:
> 
>> Not really.  It is nice to know that I am not alone though.
>>
>> I updated the gentoo bug report with this information two days
>> ago  (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70161#c38).
> 
> 
> went a little further.  Repackaged the source tarball so that the 
> top-level directory ended in 2.0.4.  Build went further but I got 
> something I've never seen before:
> 
> ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /usr/portage/distfiles/install
> install: cannot create directory `/usr/portage/distfiles/install': 
> Permission denied
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1

went further this morning and posted this series of observations and 
questions on the gentoo user mailing list in search of answers:

"""
trying to use the xen ebuild from bugzilla and I've encountered a series 
of problems which have overcome in less than ideal ways and I'd like to 
try and fix them the right way.

The xen source tarball is delivered with a ./xen-2.0/ path and not with 
the version number is part of the path.  As a result $(S) is wrong and 
I'm wondering what's the right way to handle this?

I worked around the problem by rebuilding the tarball with the version 
number in the path and encountered a situation where it was trying to 
make a directory in someplace it shouldn't. 
(/usr/portage/distfiles/install).  looking further into the makefile 
generating the error, it appears that $(DESTDIR) is the culprit.  My 
second question is it legitimate to change DESTFILE or should I create a 
patch or dynamically edit makefiles to change DESTFILE.  If I change it, 
what do I change it to?
"""

Scott, do you want me to update the bugzilla entry?

---eric


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