Re: s6-ftrig-wait is not relocatable

From: Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-skaware_at_biaix.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:37:04 +0200

[hand-waving]

Since you are going fully static, could you consider data to be private
and hence build both skalibs and s6 with --datadir set to '.data'
(https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#the-data-directory) ?

qvb

--
pica
* Buck Evan <buck_at_yelp.com> [20151014 02:51]:
> The packaging system I'm targeting (pypi wheels =X) are built binaries that
> are relocated arbitrarily, so the "run-time installation path" is entirely
> unknown at compile time.
> 
> I know that's weird.
> 
> Making everything fully static makes everything but this one bit work
> though.
> As a nasty hack, --enable-tai-clock seems like it will disable the use of
> leapsecs.dat.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 14/10/2015 01:58, Buck Evan wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> open("/tmp/pip-build-qcZXTx/s6/build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/etc/leapsecs.dat",
> >> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> >>
> >> That is indeed where the leapsecs.dat file lived when the binary was
> >> compiled, but no longer.
> >>
> >> I don't know whether this is meant to be a supported use case or not.
> >> Regardless, can any of you all think of a workaround I can use, short of
> >> knowing the installation path at compile time?
> >>
> >
> >  You should always give ./configure (for skalibs and other packages) the
> > *run-time* installation paths. If you want to install the packages into
> > a staging directory, use the DESTDIR make variable. In your case, for
> > instance:
> >
> >  ./configure  # without --prefix: leapsecs.dat will be searched in /etc
> >  make
> >  make DESTDIR=/tmp/pip-build-qcZXTx/s6/build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/ install
> >
> >  Your automated build system should give you an environment variable
> > you can use to define your DESTDIR.
> >
> > --
> >  Laurent
> >
> >
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pica

Received on Wed Oct 14 2015 - 09:37:04 UTC