[Rivet] auxiliary scripts in several generators.

[Pere Mato Vila]

Hi David,

>> installations into kits which are distributed on Grid sites
> 
> Yes, but surely that "kit" has a known path structure. This is what
> needs to go into configure. AFS only appears as a temporary location in
> DESTDIR.

The problem is the plural with 'sites'. In general each site will have a different place. Honestly, you do not think that having an installation relocatable is better? Perhaps the solution I proposed is not good enough but I am sure a solution can be worked out to cover all cases.

> 
>> wants to copy the GENSER installations into kits
> 
> You might _want_ to, but it's a broken idea to copy full installs
> somewhere else. Also, now you ask the original packages to adapt to the
> broken model of how you think it should work. There's a reason apt or
> yum handle pre- and postprocessing steps in the packaging tool, and not
> in the original code tarball.
> 
> To summarize: don't try to be lazy in the wrong place, configure and
> build the code for the kits separately!

I would like to add another problem with the current system for which the DESTDIR will not help. If you have package A that uses package B using the "B_config" script  to get the usage details. If you build both and only on success install them to the final destination it will not work. Indeed this is the way we detected that the generated XXX_config file was not relocatable.
Cheers,


			Pere


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