[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#490087: FTBFS: shouldn't try to write in homedir during install

[Hubert Chathi]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:02:41 +0200, Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> said:

> Your package failed to build the latest binNMU on amd64 and s390
> buildds, because these buildds don't allow builds to write in the
> homedir as can be seen in the following build log extract:

> ---

> This is gnustep-make 2.0.6. Type 'make print-gnustep-make-help' for
> help.
> make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/mpdcon.app-1.1.99'
> make[1]: stat: /home/buildd/.GNUstep.conf: Permission denied
> make[1]: stat: /home/buildd/.GNUstep.conf: Permission denied
> *ERROR*: the software is configured to install itself into /home/buildd
> but you do not have permissions to write in that directory:
> Aborting installation.

> make[1]: *** [internal-check-install-permissions] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/mpdcon.app-1.1.99'
> make: *** [install] Error 2

> ---

My guess is that this is due to the "GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR = $(HOME)"
line in GNUMakefile.

Which makes me unsure exactly how the package gets properly built at
all...

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