Bug 76422

Summary: devel/automake ports fail to install when built as non-root
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: John Baldwin <jhb>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-01-18 17:50:32 UTC
The pre-install and post-install targets are not run with elevated privileges, so the mkdir commands in the pre-install target fail when trying to install as non-root (in other words, su seems to only be applied for do-install)

Fix: Change the automake ports to use the pre-su-install and post-su-install targets rather than pre-install and post-install.  Example change for automake19:



-pre-install:
+pre-su-install:
        @${RM} -fr ${PREFIX}/share/automake${BUILD_VERSION}
        @${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/share/automake${BUILD_VERSION}
        @${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/share/aclocal${BUILD_VERSION}
        @${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/libexec/automake${BUILD_VERSION}

-post-install:
+post-su-install:
 .for i in aclocal automake
        @${LN} -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/${i}${BUILD_VERSION} \
                ${PREFIX}/libexec/automake${BUILD_VERSION}/${i}

Note that all automake ports seem affected however.--gKdLU1rSCEgAhpodCom9rSQK7XWL8JwiGBjeByjEyTVqccKM
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Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/ports/devel/automake19/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.57
diff -u -r1.57 Makefile
--- Makefile    28 Dec 2004 06:43:00 -0000      1.57
+++ Makefile    18 Jan 2005 17:49:27 -0000
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@
        )
        @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,%%X11BASE%%,${X11BASE},g' ${WRKSRC}/aclocal.in
How-To-Repeat: Run 'make install' for one of the devel/automake* ports
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-01-19 05:05:09 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->ade

Over to maintainer.
Comment 2 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-03-07 17:47:28 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: ade->freebsd-ports-bugs

Return to the fold after releasing autotools back into the wild.
Comment 3 Greg Lewis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-03-17 16:20:31 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks! 

Note that we only need pre-su-install.  There is no post-su-install as 
once we've su'ed the privilege is retained for the rest of the install 
step (and do-install always causes this to happen at least at that point).