[krbdev.mit.edu #8975] Apparent bug with configure and "make install"

[Mike Jetzer via RT]

Thu Dec 31 15:06:18 2020: Request 8975 was acted upon.
 Transaction: Ticket created by mjetzer.cdc at gmail.com
       Queue: krb5
     Subject: Apparent bug with configure and "make install"
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: mjetzer.cdc at gmail.com
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8975 >


Compiling krb5-1.18.3 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 system.  When I did a
"make install" as a non-privileged user, I got a "mkdir: cannot create
directory '/run/krb5kdc': Permission denied" in the initial "mkdir" section
of the "make install".

Inspecting src/Makefile, INSTALLMKDIRS includes ${localstatedir}/run and
${localstatedir}/run/krb5kdc, but these are the only two occurrences of the
string "localstatedir" in this Makefile.

I see that localstatdir is defined as ${prefix}/var in src/doc/Makefile, so
I manually added this definition to my src/Makefile, which allowed "make
install" to run without error.