<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.32.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 01:34 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Gaetan Nadon <<A HREF="mailto:memsize@videotron.ca">memsize@videotron.ca</A>> (04/06/2011): > What is unusual about the "target dbs" file (which aren't docs), it > that they are not installed in any location governed by the x11proto > package *dir variables such as docdir, datarootdir and so on. The > installation location is obtained by questioning xorg-sgml-doctools > package. I suspect this package, on your build, has been installed in > /usr. I would be nice if you could verify that. Sorry it wasn't clear. Everything ends up (inside Debian packages, and on filesystems) under /usr. Here are files from xorg-sgml-doctools: /usr/share/pkgconfig/xorg-sgml-doctools.pc /usr/share/sgml/X11/defs.ent /usr/share/sgml/X11/xorg-fo.xsl /usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/masterdb.pdf.xml /usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/masterdb.txt.xml /usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/masterdb.html.xml /usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/masterdb.ps.xml /usr/share/sgml/X11/xorg.css /usr/share/sgml/X11/xorg.xsl /usr/share/sgml/X11/xorg-xhtml.xsl /usr/share/doc/xorg-sgml-doctools/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/xorg-sgml-doctools/copyright /usr/share/doc/xorg-sgml-doctools/changelog.Debian.gz > Forgot to ask, you mention distcheck, but what happens with a regular > "make install"? It should behave the same way. If not, we are falling > in that category of scenario where "we know we do not have permissions > to install at that location, but we just want to create a tarball > using distcheck, not really install the package". There are a few > video drivers in that situation and there is a workaround. It's so > hard to explain :-) With --prefix=/usr, make install DESTDIR=/tmp/foo installs everything under /tmp/foo/usr With --prefix=/blah, make install DESTDIR=/tmp/foo installs most files under /tmp/foo/blah, but db files under /tmp/foo/usr, so it's the prefix chosen when building xorg-sgml-doctools that's taken into account, and DESTDIR is prepended, as expected: /tmp/foo/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/x11protocol.html.db /tmp/foo/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/x11protocol.fo.db vs: /tmp/foo/blah/lib/pkgconfig/xproto.pc   /tmp/foo/blah/include/X11/* </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> That looks right. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I really don't know what distcheck does (DESTDIR or something else), but I'm on my way to the manual. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I never used DESTDIR with distcheck. I don't know if it makes sense or not. I tried any way, just to see what happens. The building of x11proto.pdf failed. <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> [warning] /usr/bin/fop: Unable to locate fop in /home/nadon/xorg/src/proto/x11proto/tmp/usr/share/java </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Somehow $DESTDIR is used in front of /usr/share/java. That makes think your build did not have DESTDIR set when running distcheck as you would get the same error I had, in theory.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Mraw, KiBi. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>