Re: expect to get hacked

From: Olaf Kirch (okirat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 08:32:42 PDT

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    On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:04:33AM +1200, zen-parseat_private wrote:
    > Under Redhat 7.0 expect uses the wrong path for search for its libs,
    > one of the paths including a /var/tmp/ component.
    
    I assume this is another instance of a problem I've seen repeatedly with
    RPMs built using the BuildRoot mechanism (i.e. where data is installed
    into /some/fake/rootdir, packaged, and the fake tree thrown away again).
    
    I've seen several RPMs where people were too lazy to patch the Makefiles
    to make them install to the buildroot directory, and used stuff like
    "make prefix=/tmp/foobar-1.2.3/usr install".
    
    This can have bad side effects, like compiling /tmp/foobar-1.2.3/usr/blabla
    into your search paths.
    
    Don't do that, folks :)
    
    Olaf
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