libX11 and libXext (at least) fail using prefix on make install

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 03:46 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Garry Iglesias
> <garry.iglesias at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry if this problem has already been mentioned, but I couldn't find
> > any question nor bug about it...
> >
> > I'm building a libX11 and libXext as static libraries in a local tree as
> > third party dependencies of a framework I'm working on. It's been
> > working like a charm for 3 years, but I recently (yesterday) upgraded
> > to the last versions of the libs. And I encounter a failure on install:
> >  make install doesn't use the prefix and try to write directly into
> > /usr/share/ which is a problem:
> >
> > ============================================
> > libX11 build log:
> >
> > [...]
> > Making install in libX11
> > make[2]: Entering directory
> > `/shared-a/nshq/dev/ns2/third-party/Xlib/libX11-1.4.3/specs/libX11'
> > make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/shared-a/nshq/dev/ns2/third-party/Xlib/libX11-1.4.3/specs/libX11'
> > make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> > test -z "/home/giglesias/development/ns2/third-party/build/share/doc/libX11"
> > || /usr/bin/mkdir -p
> > "/home/giglesias/development/ns2/third-party/build/share/doc/libX11"
> >  /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 libX11.xml AppA.xml AppB.xml AppC.xml
> > AppD.xml CH01.xml CH02.xml CH03.xml CH04.xml CH05.xml CH06.xml
> > CH07.xml CH08.xml CH09.xml CH10.xml CH11.xml CH12.xml CH13.xml
> > CH14.xml CH15.xml CH16.xml credits.xml glossary.xml
> > '/home/giglesias/development/ns2/third-party/build/share/doc/libX11'
> > test -z "/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs" || /usr/bin/mkdir -p "/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs"
> >  /usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 libX11.html.db libX11.fo.db
> > '/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs'
> > /usr/bin/ginstall: cannot remove
> > `/usr/share/sgml/X11/dbs/libX11.html.db': Permission denied
> 
> I think this must be picking up your host's pkg-config file for
> xorg-sgml-doctools that determine where to install the cross reference
> databases for the documents. Do you see the following line during
> configure?
> 
> checking for X.Org SGML entities >= 1.7... /usr/share/sgml
> 
> The fix is either to install a new copy of xorg-sgml-doctools for your
> prefix before libX11/libXext, or just disable the build of the spec
> docs with --disable-specs. If you're just installing X as a
> dependency, you may not care about the spec docs (they take a long
> time to build, too). I think the next release of these modules will
> have that fixed so the files follow --prefix, but I don't know when
> that will be.
> 

This was fixed 10 days ago in git master:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=b370eeb0191b0e2a8bde2f03a442a8ca62e35d58 and in all other modules with docs.

Version 1.8 of xorg-sgml-doctools is required. Configuring with
--disable-docs and --disable=specs will skip building the documentation
which is a sizable piece of work in libX11.


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> Dan
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