278226 - "make install" installs nspr-config in /usr/local/bin though prefix=$HOME/mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041208

I've just compiled Mozilla with "make -f client.mk" and "ac_add_options
--prefix=$HOME/mozilla" in my .mozconfig file (as usual), but:

dixsept:...oz-source/mozilla> make install
/usr/bin/make -C nsprpub real_install DESTDIR=
libdir=/usr/local/lib/mozilla-1.8a6 includedir=/usr/local/include/mozilla-1.8a6/nspr
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub'
cd config; /usr/bin/make -j1 real_install
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub/config'
../config/./nsinstall -t -m 0755 nspr-config /usr/local/bin
../config/./nsinstall: cannot create /usr/local/bin/nspr-config: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [real_install] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub/config'
make[1]: *** [real_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub'
make: *** [install] Error 2

Fortunately, I didn't try that under root, otherwise system files could have
been overwritten!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Vincent Lefevre]

The problem was due to a .mozconfig file in the tarball (as noted in bug
278253), with the consequence that my personal .mozconfig wasn't taken into account.