02:28 <schillingklaus> once upon a time, dylan and dilyn went into a pub

04:30 <sad_plan> hi

08:10 <feenix> having trouble with a package im porting myself. its a really simple one. just a single Makefile. readme says make and make config. the problem is kiss allows it to directly install its files to system /usr/bin while its building. rather than to .cache/kiss/proc. doesn't come with a configure file either.

08:11 <feenix> to solve it. I changed the absolute paths in the makefile to. . ./../pkg/pkgname/usr/bin

08:11 <feenix> this worked but I wonder if there was some other more idiomatic way

08:13 <feenix> I don't quite understand how tools like make pick where to install to at build time. some makefiles its an absolute path. some I cant even tell its so messy

08:21 <sad_plan> kiss will install to DESTDIR. what are you trying to port?

08:21 <sad_plan> kiss should install directly to /, it should install ot $1/ then be moved to once you click enter to install

08:22 <sad_plan> s/should/shoudnt/

08:25 <feenix> yea this the only package that did this

08:25 <feenix> github cdecl-blocks

08:26 <feenix> during the build, I dunno if its a chroot or not. make somehow installed to system dir and broke out of chroot if there is one

08:27 <sad_plan> this? https://github.com/ridiculousfish/cdecl-blocks

08:27 <feenix> yes

08:27 <feenix> thanks for checking it out

08:31 <sad_plan> hm, seems like it doesnt respect DESTDIR at all. usually one can bypass the permission denied with mkdir -p "$1/usr/bin", but it persists.

08:31 <sad_plan> copy it manually instead

08:31 <sad_plan> so mkdir -p $dirs, cp -f $files $dirs

08:31 <sad_plan> just remember to use "$1/$dir"

08:31 <feenix> right I make the dirs manually in build, edited the makefile to reroute the paths.then just make and install

08:31 <sad_plan> no straight to /usr/bin or w/e

08:31 <feenix> that worked but wasnt fun

08:32 <feenix> ok thank you

08:32 <sad_plan> in the buildscript

08:32 <sad_plan> no problem

08:32 <feenix> so is it just an unconventional make file?

08:32 <feenix> glad to know I didnt go crazy

08:32 <sad_plan> seems like it

08:33 <sad_plan> its not uncommon for projects to use install command instead of cp.

08:34 <feenix> to be clear the straight to /bin was done by make .not me

08:34 <feenix> had to reroute the paths. didnt do copying

08:34 <sad_plan> in the makefile, you can see that BINDIR is /usr/bin, not $DESTDIR/$PREFIX/bin

08:35 <feenix> yea. had to change it. wasnt too hard

08:35 <sad_plan> usually makefile will have PREFIX=/usr/local, and BINDIR=$PREFIX/bin, then install to $DESTDIR$PREFIX/bin

08:35 <feenix> ah I see

08:35 <sad_plan> yeah, its simple enough, just annoying having to fix something so trivial

08:36 <feenix> didnt know about destdir. I just been porting stuff blindly. following the excellent examples in the repos

08:36 <sad_plan> wtf, MANDIR is /usr/man/man1, instead of /usr/share/man/man1.

08:36 <feenix> yea I don't have man. lol

08:36 <sad_plan> sure, the repos are a good referencepoint

08:36 <sad_plan> it would still install to that, even without man command

08:37 <feenix> sure. I did

08:37 <feenix> whatever floats the source devs boat lol

08:37 <feenix> they want me to install coin miners I just do whatever the make file instructs like a good boy

08:51 <sad_plan> install w/e youd like. its your system

12:23 <sewn> Hi

12:24 <iceman[m]> kekw i feel feenix

12:25 <iceman[m]> i remember writing shitty makefiles that don't respect the user at all

12:25 <iceman[m]> but now i've changed, for the better

16:12 <sewn> have you though?

23:17 <sewn> wtf

23:17 <sewn> testuser didn't say hi yesterday

23:18 <sewn> its over

23:18 <GalaxyNova> rip

23:45 <feenix> he went away like Dylan. legend says they will return in the hour of greatest need to lead this community to glory