building all targets in samba for install?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2022-11-05 at 21:29 +0300, Michael Tokarev via samba-technical
wrote:
> Is there a way to build all targets needed for install?
> 
> The problem is that `make build' or `make' (or waf build)
> doe not build stuff needed to install binaries, it builds
> stuff needed to run binaries in place.
> 
> Usually, the build sequence of some software is:
> 
>   ./configure
>   make
>   make install
> 
> Where the last step does only copying of the already built
> files.
> 
> But in samba, after doing regular build, it builds whole
> thing once again (so `make' step is almost useless).
> 
> Is there something like `make install-targets' to perform
> all compilation necessary for installing things, but not
> the actual install procedure?  So that when `make install'
> is run, it will only copy files, without compiling.
> 
> The problem at hand is that on debian, the install step is done
> as different user (root) than build (to be able to set file
> ownership right).  And the root does not have the same build
> environment as the build user, so when things are being
> compiled at the install time, it does not work right.
> 
> In order to overcome this, I currently use `make install'
> twice: the first time, as the build user, to install things
> into a scratch throw-away place, - just to force all things
> to be built.  Next I remove the installed files, and perform
> install once again, now as root, into proper place with
> proper file ownership.
> 
> Is there a way to eliminate this middle fake install step?

Not currently, but you could use the fake install step as your main
build step if you wanted to.

Andrew Bartlett

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