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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 23:41, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:23:02PM +0100, Richard Bos wrote:
> > Op zondag 29 februari 2004 22:18, schreef Michael Vogt:
> > > Do you think the attached patch will solve the problem? Can you please
> > > try? You'll have to rerun ./autogen.sh to regenerate the Makefile.
> > 
> > No, see below.
> > 
> > > If this does not work, can you please send me your rpm-build script?
> > > Just to get a better chance to help with the problem.
> > 
> > My build does not fail, it continues.  But I encountered the 
> > failure/warning 
> > and started to wunder, is it wrong/good/bad etc.  As I'm not familair with 
> > scrollkeeper I have now idea how serious it is.
> > If there would be option in configure to skip the scrollkeeper install 
> > (pkg-builder-mode e.g.) phase it would be clear at once.
> 
> Oh, ok. Sorry. I misunderstood the importance of this then :) 
> 
> I was under the impression that there was a real build failure. I'll
> look around how other projects deal with scrollkeeper and do the same
> with synaptic. Do you think I should add a little Remark in the Readme
> of synaptic (under a section like "Package building") in the meantime? 

Actually every piece of software using scrollkeeper I remember seeing
has the same issue of giving those errors about being unable to write to
/var/log/scrollkeeper.log. AFAIK there's no way to override the
directory/logfile either, I'd say it's a scrollkeeper issue, options
being basically
a) don't run scrollkeeper-update from Makefile on normal "make install"
b) ignore the error
c) fix scrollkeeper to allow not writing to the file / write to another
file

At any rate it's quite harmless since it doesn't prevent building. 

        - Panu -