How Does Make Determine where to Install? (packaging for GNU Guix distro)

[WammKD]

As I mention in the title, I'm trying to package this for Guix and I think that I've almost got things.

Most files get installed to the right directly but the libnautilus-dropbox.so file is attempting to be installed to the Nautilus package's directory.

Guix's functional nature means that each package lives in their own directory and the right approach would be to install libnautilus-dropbox.so in the directory of this package and Guix will take care of properly exposing it.

So, right now, I'm getting this error:

/gnu/store/d251rfgc9nm2clzffzhgiipdvfvzkvwi-coreutils-8.32/bin/mkdir -p '/gnu/store/jb1ghi4gyr349l5jk147xxmsp1f3964s-nautilus-42.2/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0'

/gnu/store/4y5m9lb8k3qkb1y9m02sw9w9a6hacd16-bash-minimal-5.1.8/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /gnu/store/d251rfgc9nm2clzffzhgiipdvfvzkvwi-coreutils-8.32/bin/install -c libnautilus-dropbox.la '/gnu/store/jb1ghi4gyr349l5jk147xxmsp1f3964s-nautilus-42.2/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0'

libtool: install: /gnu/store/d251rfgc9nm2clzffzhgiipdvfvzkvwi-coreutils-8.32/bin/install -c .libs/libnautilus-dropbox.so /gnu/store/jb1ghi4gyr349l5jk147xxmsp1f3964s-nautilus-42.2/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-dropbox.so

/gnu/store/d251rfgc9nm2clzffzhgiipdvfvzkvwi-coreutils-8.32/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/gnu/store/jb1ghi4gyr349l5jk147xxmsp1f3964s-nautilus-42.2/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-dropbox.so': Permission denied

make[2]: *** [Makefile:409: install-nautilus_extensionLTLIBRARIES] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-dropbox-nautilus-2020.03.04.drv-0/source/src'

make[1]: *** [Makefile:631: install-am] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-dropbox-nautilus-2020.03.04.drv-0/source/src'

make: *** [Makefile:520: install-recursive] Error 1

error: in phase 'install': uncaught exception:

%exception #<&invoke-error program: "make" arguments: ("install") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f>

when I need to install libnautilus-dropbox.so to <nautilus-dropbox directory>/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-dropbox.so.

But I can't figure out, for the life of me, how to do that or even the point make is installing to the Nautilus directory.

Any help or pointers would be amazing so I could get this working on Guix and submit it to the Guix repo.s.

[goffrie]

I can't say I'm actually familiar with configure/automake stuff but does --with-nautilus-extension-dir do what you're looking for?