[libvirt] [PATCH] build: avoid corrupting / in RHEL 5
Jiri Denemark
jdenemar at redhat.com
Wed Jun 1 20:30:48 UTC 2011
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:52:00 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I noticed this while building from libvirt.git on RHEL 5.6:
>
> Generating internals/command.html.tmp
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/internals': Permission denied
>
> If I had been building as root instead, this pollutes /.
>
> Older autoconf lacks $(builddir), but it is rigorously equal to '.'
> in newer autoconf, so we could use '$(MKDIR_P) internals' instead.
>
> However, since internals/command.html is part of the tarball, we
> _already_ build it in $(srcdir), not $(builddir) during VPATH
> builds, so the mkdir is wasted effort!
>
> * docs/Makefile.am (internals/%.html.tmp): Drop unused mkdir.
> ---
> docs/Makefile.am | 1 -
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
ACK
Jirka
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