Make returns me with an error

Question

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.12 2003/11/06 08:26:13 dorphell Exp $
# Maintainer:Tutku Dalmaz <tutkudalmaz>>
pkgname=loosecannon
pkgver=0.5.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Loose Cannon is 3D 3rd person action adventure game."
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/loose-cannon/"
licence="GPL"
depends=('openal')
source=("http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/loose-cannon/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
md5sums=('7ec489f393295c88f9ef4b3f9d0d2c52')
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
this is my first PKGBUILD, i have written these but when i start with makepkg, after a while it gives me
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/titus/src/loosecannon/src/loosecannon-0.5.0'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
cp -r share/loosecannon /usr/share/
cp: cannot create directory `/usr/share/loosecannon': Permission denied
how can i correct this.

Answer 1

Lone_Wolf wrote:
try using $startdir/pkg/usr   as prefix for ./configure
like this :
./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr
This should be avoid because sometime the paths that are passed to the configure script are hardcoded in the app.
Here's the fixed PKGBUILD:
# Contributor:Tutku Dalmaz <tutkudalmaz>
pkgname=loosecannon
pkgver=0.5.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Loose Cannon is 3D 3rd person action adventure game."
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/loose-cannon/"
licence="GPL"
depends=('python' 'mesa' 'sdl_image' 'freealut')
source=("http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/loose-cannon/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
md5sums=('7ec489f393295c88f9ef4b3f9d0d2c52')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
install -d $startdir/pkg/usr/share
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg datadir=$startdir/pkg/usr/share install
chmod 644 $startdir/pkg/usr/share/loosecannon/snds/hover.wav
These kinds of problems are usually solved by looking at the Makefile. Some Makefiles don't use the DESTDIR variable for the installation location. The variable has another name like prefix, PREFIX, INSTALL_ROOT, etc or the Makefile is broken like in this case. It use DESTDIR for the executable but not for the data:
cp -r share/loosecannon $(datadir)/
. So I gave it the wanted datadir path, completed depends, etc.