JHBuild

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Relocatability experiment

When you build an autotools-based package you give it a "prefix" via the --prefix argument to specify where it should be installed. Is it possible to build packages under one prefix but use them under another by setting environment variables? This would make it much easier to build packages in bulk for use with Zero-Install.

I started this experiment in March 2008: see my post on zero-install-devel.

My changes to JHBuild are in this Bazaar branch.

Basic plan:

The hope is that there are no references to /FAKEPREFIX hardcoded into binary files, or that these references don't matter.

Cases of hardcoded paths:

Not all packages support DESTDIR in make install:

Other problems:

JHBuild (last edited 2008-10-15 11:03:17 by MarkSeaborn)