INN configure path options

Kai Henningsen kaih at khms.westfalen.de
Sat Nov 23 18:22:00 UTC 2002


I'm currently working on an (local, inofficial) .deb for INN 2.4, and one  
problem I'm hitting right now is the path configure options. (This is the  
old FHS (FSSTD) discussion.)

First, I assume it's known that all the traditional configure path options  
do exactly nothing. Not a problem, just unusual.

Second, it seems I can *mostly* get everything configured right, except  
that lib-dir is used both for real C libraries (which ought to go to /usr/ 
lib) and for a handful of other files (which really should go to /usr/lib/ 
news instead) - innreport_inn.pm and inshellvars*. I'm willing to write a  
patch if you can tell me how it should be handled.

Third, and not really connected to paths, there's something wrong with  
installation of libinnhist - libtool complains about relinking and refuses  
to install it. (At this point I should mention that I'm using a newer  
version of libtool, 1.4.2a, just in case it makes a difference (but I  
don't expect so) - ltmain.sh patched to accept the INN install options, of  
course). No such error with libinn or libstorage, so it's probably a  
simple Makefile bug, but I don't see it right now.

Once I get this done, I'm willing to contribute it to whoever wants it, of  
course. (Hint for people knowing the Debian INN packages: I'm not keeping  
the division into inn2/inn2-inews/inn2-dev, as we don't need this locally  
and this way I don't need to figure out which file goes into which  
package. Easy enough to reconstruct if you care.)

MfG Kai


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