[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] build system

[From: Toni Willberg]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:37 -0300, Gustavo Barbieri wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Paul Mundt <paul.mundt at nokia.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:26:37AM -0300, Gustavo Barbieri wrote:
> > > I use a system where / doesn't have much space, but I have some spare
> > > in /mnt/extra, so I want to install maemo/scratchbox in
> > > /mnt/extra/maemo/, however everything is hard coded to /scratchbox.
> > >
> > # ln -s /mnt/extra/maemo /scratchbox
> > 
> > Unfortunately whoever built the binary packages didn't make them
> > relocatable, but the symlink works as a quick-and-dirty fix.
> 
> Yes, I know this solution, but:
> /scratchbox breaks LSB... since it's hardcode, make it to /opt at least.
> 
> and the build system also doesn't make it easy to change the install prefix.
> 

The /scratchbox path comes from the upstream Scratchbox.org project.
Please file a request at http://bugzilla.scratchbox.org if you wish it
to be changed.

- Toni