Re: libtraceevent installing in wrong folder

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:05:48PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> [ I also added linux-trace-devel, but it was good to Cc LKML too ]
> 
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:11:57 +0000
> Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > I tried to install libtraceevent. and I used the command:
> > "make DESTDIR=/home/sudip/test prefix=/usr install" from tool/lib/traceevent
> > 

<snip>

> > 
> > I am seeing two problems:
> > 1) It created another home/sudip/test folder inside /home/sudip/test and
> > the header files are installed in /home/sudip/test/home/sudip/test/usr/include folder.
> > They should have been in /home/sudip/test/usr/include.
> > 
> > 2) I used prefix=/usr but the 'pkgconfig' still went to /usr/local
> > 
> > Did I do something wrong?
> 
> No, but you showed that the installation part is poorly tested. I
> mostly tested just the code from trace-cmd, and even the installation
> paths from that repo. I should have tested the kernel repo as well, but
> failed to do this.
> 
> Thanks for reporting, I need to take a look, or if you want to have a go
> at it, that would be great too :-)

Attached is a patch for the wrong installation of header files.
For the pkgconfig, the problem is at:
pkgconfig_dir ?= $(word 1,$(shell $(PKG_CONFIG)                 \
                        --variable pc_path pkg-config | tr ":" " "))

This is checking 'pc_path' which is the search path used by pkg-config
and then its taking the first path from that list and using in pkgconfig_dir,
which can be wrong.
A reliable way to get the pkg-config location is if I use:

pkg=$(pkg-config --list-all | head -1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
pkg-config --variable=pcfiledir $pkg

But I will need to see how I can use this in a Makefile, will send this
patch later, or if you can find a better way before me that will be great.

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Regards
Sudip

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From 1ff159997d1dd299bb0e612baeb573aac45eac03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 23:33:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] libtraceevent: fix header installation

When we passed some location in DESTDIR, install_headers called
do_install with DESTDIR as part of the second argument. But do_install
is again using '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$2', so as a result the headers were
installed in a location $DESTDIR/$DESTDIR. In my testing I passed
DESTDIR=/home/sudip/test and the headers were installed in:
/home/sudip/test/home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent.
Lets remove DESTDIR from the second argument of do_install so that the
headers are installed in the correct location.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
---
 tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
index 5315f3787f8d..cbb429f55062 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
@@ -232,10 +232,10 @@ install_pkgconfig:
 
 install_headers:
 	$(call QUIET_INSTALL, headers) \
-		$(call do_install,event-parse.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644); \
-		$(call do_install,event-utils.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644); \
-		$(call do_install,trace-seq.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644); \
-		$(call do_install,kbuffer.h,$(DESTDIR)$(includedir_SQ),644)
+		$(call do_install,event-parse.h,$(includedir_SQ),644); \
+		$(call do_install,event-utils.h,$(includedir_SQ),644); \
+		$(call do_install,trace-seq.h,$(includedir_SQ),644); \
+		$(call do_install,kbuffer.h,$(includedir_SQ),644)
 
 install: install_lib
 
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