Any chance of a relocatable build? about build-couchdb HOT 4 OPEN

The problem is that only some components use autotools. In fact, if everything used autotools (or any arbitrary common build system) then build-couchdb would barely have a reason to exist. Also, just because something uses autotools doesn't guarantee the developers cut zero corners and did everything by the book.

However, I have gotten relocatable builds working in the past, at least if a post-install script is permitted to run. If you can find the couchbase single server 1.x packages, check their post install script. That's my code, but I don't recall what license it's under. But anyway it's 20 lines of Bash or so and it simply searches and replaces all those paths once the installed location is known.

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Ahh, sadly that sort of thing won't do, at least for my interests - not only do 0install implementations have to be relocatable, they need to be read-only once built (since implementations are cryptographically signed, any modification will break the signature validity).

It would really need to use relative paths (or environment variables, at least as optional overrides for hard-coded paths), but not many people seem to end up with a build system like that :(

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Yeah, well we could still look at the script and see if we could just
fix all the bugs that it is papering over. I seem to recall it was
only 4 or so files with this problem. Maybe they could be made to use
relative paths. For example, the main "bin/couchdb" file has an
absolute path, but it could probably be made to use a relative URL.

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Tim Cuthbertson
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Ahh, sadly that sort of thing won't do, at least for my interests - not only do 0install implementations have to be relocatable, they need to be read-only once built (since implementations are cryptographically signed, any modification will break the signature validity).

It would really need to use relative paths (or environment variables, at least as optional overrides for hard-coded paths), but not many people seem to end up with a build system like that :(

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Iris Couch

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Sorry for taking so long to look at this, but I couldn't actually find any such script in the old releases. Don't suppose you have a link anywhere?

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