* Steinar H. Gunderson <se...@debian.org> [231218 17:19]:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 04:33:26PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > I don't think there is anything you can "ask" about this.
> >
> > Generally the idea is that in trixie and later, --prefix=/usr really
> > means that. Anything that excluded subdirs from ${prefix} should be
> > a thing of the past. If the upstream build system ignores ${prefix}
> > for a certain location, you'll need to override it :-(
>
> Well, it's pretty straight-up autoconf (no automake). Makefile.in contains
>
> PREFIX=@prefix@
> SYSCONFDIR=@sysconfdir@
> LOCALSTATEDIR=@localstatedir@
> LIBDIR=@libdir@
>
> and installs into $(LIBDIR).
>
> dh_auto_configure runs configure with (among others)
>
> --prefix=/usr --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>
> But nothing ever defines lowercase ${prefix}. It's possible that it expects
> the upstream Makefile to do
>
> prefix=$(PREFIX)
I think thats what dh expects it to contain for everything to work,
yes. You could check out the "hello" source package, which has a bog
standard autoconf/automake setup and has, in Makefile.in:
...
libdir = @libdir@
...
prefix = @prefix@
...
and thus in Makefile:
...
libdir = ${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
...
prefix = /usr
...
> or something similar? But it's unclear to my why it doesn't just do
>
> --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
Good question, don't know. There is no comment explaining this in
the debhelper source; maybe it was to avoid duplication there.
Maybe the easiest is to add --libdir=/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}
to dh_auto_configure?
Best,
Chris
