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author | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2021-04-13 21:11:35 +0800 |
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committer | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2021-04-13 21:16:04 +0800 |
commit | 3aa4935db722c77e99f2ca57dea3692215c68963 (patch) | |
tree | 6ad03f74b1d8e0acdbfd62086951284f9b7ed007 /build-aux/m4 | |
parent | c1f480fb234856a60e9b1f4bf97114bfd9b3d0b0 (diff) | |
parent | 223b1ba7d90509a47ea07af46f4b9c3b8efbc9f8 (diff) |
Merge #17934: doc: Use CONFIG_SITE variable instead of --prefix option
223b1ba7d90509a47ea07af46f4b9c3b8efbc9f8 doc: Use CONFIG_SITE instead of --prefix (Hennadii Stepanov)
Pull request description:
The current examples of `--prefix=...` option usage to point `configure` script to appropriate `depends` directory is not [standard](https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html). This causes some [confusion](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16691) and a bit of inconvenience.
Consider a CentOS 7 32 bit system. Packages `libdb4-devel`, `libdb4-cxx-devel`, `miniupnpc-devel` and `zeromq-devel` are unavailable from repos. After recommended build with depends:
```
cd depends
make
cd ..
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$PWD/depends/i686-pc-linux-gnu
make
```
a user is unable to `make install` compiled binaries neither locally (to `~/.local`) nor system-wide (to `/usr/local`) as `--prefix` is set already.
Meanwhile, the standard approach with using [`config.site`](https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/config_002esite.html) files allows both possibilities:
```
cd depends
make
cd ..
./autogen.sh
CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/i686-pc-linux-gnu/share/config.site ./configure --prefix ~/.local
make
make install
```
or
```
CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/i686-pc-linux-gnu/share/config.site ./configure
make
sudo make install # install to /usr/local
```
Moreover, this approach is used in [Gitian descriptors](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib/gitian-descriptors) already.
ACKs for top commit:
practicalswift:
ACK 223b1ba7d90509a47ea07af46f4b9c3b8efbc9f8: patch looks correct
fanquake:
ACK 223b1ba7d90509a47ea07af46f4b9c3b8efbc9f8
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