[debhelper-devel] Bug#813266: debhelper: dh_auto_configure assumes install paths to be re-evaluated

[Isaac Jurado]

Any news?

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Isaac Jurado <diptongo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20150101
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> The dh_auto_configure invokes "configure" scripts assuming some arguments
> like
> "--bindir" and "--installdir" will be re-evaluated by configure.
> Apparently,
> this is the behaviour of those generated by autoconf.
>
> However, there are other utilities that generate configure scripts that
> follow
> conventions similar to autoconf, e.g., MakeKit.  But those configure
> scripts use
> the given "--bindir" like arguments verbatim.
>
> So, for example, dh_auto_configure invokes configure with "--prefix=/usr"
> and
> "--bindir=${prefix}/bin" among others.  Autoconf generated scripts will
> internally expand the value, resulting in "--bindir=/usr/bin".  On the
> other
> hand, MakeKit generated configure will not perform any variable expansion,
> trying to use "${prefix}/bin" as the path for binaries.
>
> The fix is as trivial as expanding "$prefix" from the Perl code, since the
> scope
> of its usage is very small.  It has been generated fom revision 56591da4f.
>
> Please find the patch attached.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.3
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
> ii  binutils      2.25-5
> ii  dpkg          1.17.26
> ii  dpkg-dev      1.17.26
> ii  file          1:5.22+15-2+deb8u1
> ii  libdpkg-perl  1.17.26
> ii  man-db        2.7.0.2-5
> ii  perl          5.20.2-3+deb8u3
> ii  po-debconf    1.0.16+nmu3
>
> debhelper recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
> pn  dh-make  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>



-- 
Isaac Jurado

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding"
Leonardo da Vinci
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