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

[Michael Vogt]

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> You can see that the DESTDIR is be honoured (/tmp/making_of_synaptic-0.47.91) 
> and
> that scrollkeeper-update failes to write to the log.  I wunder should this 
> part actually be
> run during the build??  I would suspect it is only necessary during the 
> installation of the
> package?
> 
> I'm puzzled...!

Thanks! I digged around a bit too and found out that I get the same
error in my debian build, but as it's ignored.

After reading the man-page of scrollkeeper-update:
" This utility is generally executed as the last  step  of
  installation, after the OMF file is copied into place. "

I think you are right and we shouldn't run this during the build or
ignore if it fails. The problem is, that users that install from
source need to run it to update there local database. For a package,
there is no need to run it during the package build, but as a
"post-inst" program that is run after the installation of the package.

Is there a easy way for you to ignore the failure? The makefile is
already written like this:

        -scrollkeeper-update -p $(scrollkeeper_localstate_dir) -o 
$(DESTDIR)$(omf_dest_dir)


so the error is already ignored in the makefile. 

bye,
 Michael

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