Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild troubles installing

[Matthew Kennedy]

mark lybarger <mlybarge@××××××××××.com> writes:

> i'm having troubles with my first ebuild script.  it's having troubles
> installing a library into /usr/lib.  i've tried this with both the
> libs existing and when they're non existant.
>
> Here's the src_install from the ebuild :
>
> src_install() {
>          make install || die
> }
>
> and here's the errors from running the emerge:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/sword-1.5.4/work/sword-1.5.4/lib'
> /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/lib
>   /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /bin/install -c  libsword.la
> /usr/lib/libswor
> d.la

You need to get it to install into ${D}/usr not /usr. The ebuild.skel
discusses the two approaches to this.

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Matthew Kennedy
Gentoo Linux Developer

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