I noticed this problem when adding systemd support to netcf, because I setup the configure.ac to automatically prefer using systemd over initscripts when possible - although I had copied the install-data-local target from the example of libvirt's "libvirt-guests" service more or less verbatim, "make distcheck" would fail because it was trying to install the service file directly into /lib/systemd/system rather than into /home/user/some/unimportant/name/lib/systemd/system. This is caused by the install/uninstall rules for the systemd unit files relying on $(DESTDIR) pointing the installed files to the right place, but in reality $(DESTDIR) is empty during this part of make distcheck - it instead sets $(prefix) with the toplevel directory used for its test build/install/uninstall cycle. (This problem hasn't been seen when running "make distcheck" in libvirt because libvirt will never build/install systemd support unless explicitly told to do so on the configure commandline, and "make distcheck" doesn't put the "--with-initscript=..." option on the configure commandline.) I verified that the same problem does exist in libvirt by modifying libvirt's configure.ac to set: init_systemd=yes with_init_script=systemd+redhat This forces a build/install of the systemd unit files during distcheck, which yields an error like this: /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 virtlockd.service \ /lib/systemd/system/ libtool: install: warning: relinking `libvirt-qemu.la' /usr/bin/install: cannot remove '/lib/systemd/system/virtlockd.service': Permission denied make[4]: *** [install-systemd] Error 1 After adding $(prefix) to all the definitions of SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR, make distcheck now completes successfully with the modified configure.ac, and the above lines change to something like this: /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 virtlockd.service \ /home/laine/devel/libvirt/libvirt-1.2.1/_inst/lib/systemd/system/ --- daemon/Makefile.am | 4 ++-- src/Makefile.am | 4 ++-- tools/Makefile.am | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemon/Makefile.am b/daemon/Makefile.am index e5c5db8..00221ab 100644 --- a/daemon/Makefile.am +++ b/daemon/Makefile.am @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in -## Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Red Hat, Inc. +## Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Red Hat, Inc. ## ## This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ## modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ endif ! LIBVIRT_INIT_SCRIPT_UPSTART if LIBVIRT_INIT_SCRIPT_SYSTEMD -SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR = /lib/systemd/system +SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR = $(prefix)/lib/systemd/system BUILT_SOURCES += libvirtd.service install-init-systemd: install-sysconfig libvirtd.service diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am index 57e163f..8f77658 100644 --- a/src/Makefile.am +++ b/src/Makefile.am @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in -## Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Red Hat, Inc. +## Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Red Hat, Inc. ## ## This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ## modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public @@ -2220,7 +2220,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \ if WITH_LIBVIRTD if LIBVIRT_INIT_SCRIPT_SYSTEMD -SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR = /lib/systemd/system +SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR = $(prefix)/lib/systemd/system BUILT_SOURCES += virtlockd.service virtlockd.socket DISTCLEANFILES += virtlockd.service virtlockd.socket diff --git a/tools/Makefile.am b/tools/Makefile.am index 256a8f3..6847f13 100644 --- a/tools/Makefile.am +++ b/tools/Makefile.am @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -## Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Red Hat, Inc. +## Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Red Hat, Inc. ## ## This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ## modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ libvirt-guests.init: libvirt-guests.init.in libvirt-guests.sh EXTRA_DIST += libvirt-guests.service.in -SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR = /lib/systemd/system +SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR = $(prefix)/lib/systemd/system if LIBVIRT_INIT_SCRIPT_SYSTEMD install-systemd: libvirt-guests.service install-sysconfig libvirt-guests.sh -- 1.8.4.2