Re: [Synaptic-devel] Build problems....

[Michael Vogt]

Hi Richard,

thanks for your work!

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:18:49PM +0100, Richard Bos wrote:
> I started to repackage synaptic after upgrading apt-rpm.  During the 
> repackaging I encountered some problems...
> 
> 1) the synaptic build process uses db2html to create the synaptic manual html 
> files.  Due to the version that I use (which comes with my distribution) the 
> rpm build failed as db2html removed the directory: 
> BUILD/synaptic-0.47/doc/html/figures/ !!!
> I don't know why, but it happens.  Fortenately my favorite xml application 
> xmlto is around and I used that to get around the problem.  As I think that 
> xmlto is better than all the db2* tools, may I propose to start using xmlto 
> instead of db2html in the synaptic build process?
[..]

Thanks for the diff. I applied it into the 0.48 branch. Gustavo will
include it into trunk/ 

> 2) I build synaptic as regular user and I see the following message:
> 
> scrollkeeper-update -p /usr/var/scrollkeeper 
> -o /tmp/making_of_synaptic-0.47/opt/gnome/share/omf/synaptic
> Could not create directory /usr/var : Permission denied
> Cannot write to log file: /var/log/scrollkeeper.log : Permission denied
> Could not create database.  Aborting update.
> Cannot write to log file: /var/log/scrollkeeper.log : Permission denied
> make[4]: [install-data-hook-omf] Error 1 (ignored)
> 
> Should I be worried about it, if not can it be disabled in the makefile?
> I have the /opt/gnome/share/omf/synaptic output file, so it does not seem a 
> problem to me.

I haven't noticed this problem so far. I build as a regular use too
under debian. I just rebuild the current 0.48 branch to test it on my
system and the build seems to be fine. My scrollkeeper version is
0.3.14 (from debian/unstable). 

bye,
 Michael



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