tries to install file(s) outside of ./configure's --prefix

[Jason Woofenden]

just tried this:

bzr branch lp:inkscape
cd inkscape
./configure --prefix=/home/foo/virt && make && make install

make install exited with an error (permission denied) that it couldn't install a dbus something into the system directories.

Inkscape should not try to install anything outside of the --prefix= path.

I'm running debian unstable.

If this isn't trivially reproducible, just let me know what info you'd like about my system, and I'll send that along with a full log.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

'dbus' should be disabled by default - possibly rev. 9773 changed that. You can disable the dbus API (--disable-dbusapi) when configuring, or try if '--enable-localinstall' helps when installing to a custom prefix (see ./configure --help).

[Jason Woofenden (jason210)]

WORKAROUND: I added --disable-dbusapi argument to ./configure and inkscape compiled and installed into my home directory, and seems to run fine.

[Krzysztof Kosinski (tweenk)]

This was fixed in 9795.