GNU bug report logs - #8362
make install prefix inserted in source code with generated python files

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Package: automake; Reported by: "A.T.Hofkamp" <a.t.hofkamp@HIDDEN>; Keywords: confirmed; merged with #16527; dated Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:56:01 UTC; Maintainer for automake is bug-automake@HIDDEN.
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:36:45 +0200, A.T.Hofkamp wrote:
> As far as I know, "make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir" should only change the place where 
> files are copied to, instead of injecting that new prefix into the source code. However, for Python 
> source files that are generated/modified during installation, this does not seem to hold:

really looks like you want to be using DESTDIR= instead of prefix=.
i don't think the behavior described here in general is a bug in
Automake.  that said, we should be compiling the script as part
of `all`.
-mike
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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Looks like it.  Can you work around this issue by adding
> 
> all-local: $(prog_PYTHON)
> 
> to the Makefile.am?

Confirmed that this addition fixes the problem for me, both with the 'p' example and the real case.
Thanks for the quick fix.

Albert
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Hello,

* A.T.Hofkamp wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:36:45AM CEST:
> As far as I know, "make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir" should
> only change the place where files are copied to, instead of
> injecting that new prefix into the source code. However, for Python
> source files that are generated/modified during installation, this
> does not seem to hold:

> ------------- Makefile.am
> prefix=@prefix@
> exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
> libexecdir = @libexecdir@
> libdir = @libdir@
> 
> PYTHON_VERSION=@PYTHON_VERSION@
> SITEPACKAGES=$(libdir)/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/site-packages
> SED=@sed@
> 
> prog_PYTHON=prog/__init__.py prog/x.py
> progdir = $(SITEPACKAGES)/prog
> 
> prog/x.py: x.src
>         $(SED) -e "s,%LIBEXEC%,$(libexecdir)," < x.src > prog/x.py

Looks like it.  Can you work around this issue by adding

all-local: $(prog_PYTHON)

to the Makefile.am?

Thanks for the report,
Ralf
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Hello,

As far as I know, "make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir" should only change the place where 
files are copied to, instead of injecting that new prefix into the source code. However, for Python 
source files that are generated/modified during installation, this does not seem to hold:

------------- Makefile.am
prefix=@prefix@
exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
libexecdir = @libexecdir@
libdir = @libdir@

PYTHON_VERSION=@PYTHON_VERSION@
SITEPACKAGES=$(libdir)/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/site-packages
SED=@sed@

prog_PYTHON=prog/__init__.py prog/x.py
progdir = $(SITEPACKAGES)/prog

prog/x.py: x.src
         $(SED) -e "s,%LIBEXEC%,$(libexecdir)," < x.src > prog/x.py
-------------

prog/x.py is generated from x.src by inserting the libexecdir path into it.

During install, the following happens at my system:
(/somewhere is a fake path for demonstration purposes only,
  also replaced irrelevant lengthy output lines by ... )

+ ./configure --prefix=/somewhere
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
...

+ make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

+ make prefix=/home/hat/tmp/p/installed install
...
sed -e "s,%LIBEXEC%,/home/hat/tmp/p/installed/libexec," < x.src > prog/x.py
...


The prog/x.py rule was run during 'make install' rather than 'make'. As a result, the wrong 
libexecdir got included.

Tested with autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6
and (by temporary install) autoconf 2.68, automake 1.11.1


Attached a demo directory 'p' that demonstrates the issue.


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