Install InyokaEdit in /home fails due to apport configuration

[mrkramps]

Tried to install bzr revision 337 with custom prefix (see error message below) in my home directory, but make install (no sudo should be required) fails:

sed -e 's@___PREFIX___@/home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr@g' data/menu.in > data/menu ; sed -e 's@___PREFIX___@/home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr@g' man/inyokaedit.1.in > man/inyokaedit.1 ; sed -e 's@___PREFIX___@/home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr@g' man/de/inyokaedit.1.in > man/de/inyokaedit.1 ;
install -m755 -d /etc/apport
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/bin
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/applications
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/apport
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/apport/package-hooks
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/icons
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/inyokaedit/lang
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/menu
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/mime/packages
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/pixmaps
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/man/man1
install -m755 -d /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/man/de/man1
install -m755 -D inyokaedit /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/bin
install -m755 -D data/GetInyokaStyles /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/inyokaedit
install -m755 -D data/GetIWLs /home/kramps/Applications/inyokaedit-bzr/share/inyokaedit
install -m644 -D apport/inyokaedit-crashdb.conf /etc/apport
install: cannot create regular file ‘/etc/apport/inyokaedit-crashdb.conf’: Permission denied
make: *** [install-inyokaedit] Error 1

Obviously it requires to install the configuration file for the apport database in /etc/apport no matter which prefix is used. Thus making a real local installation without sudo impossible.

I temporarily solved this issue and deactivated the installation of the apport related file by commenting out line 61 and 62 in the Makefile:

61: # $(INSTALL_FILE) apport/inyokaedit-crashdb.conf $(DESTDIR)/etc/apport
62: # $(INSTALL_FILE) apport/source_inyokaedit.py $(DESTDIR)$(dataroot)/apport/package-hooks

It would be nice if you add an option to the configure script to disable apport support on demand. Guess this would be the easiest way to get around this issue.

Thank you and keep up the good work!

[El Thoro (elthoro)]

Many thanks for reporting the problem! I committed a fix, which should solve the issue.

[mrkramps (mrkramps)]

Now installation to home directory works when disabling apport support at configuration, issue definitely solved. Thank you very much.