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

[Richard Bos]

Op zondag 29 februari 2004 11:45, schreef Michael Vogt:
> 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.

A good ;)

> 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.

Indeed.

What about adding a configure argumentn (--no-scrollkeeper-install e.g.), that 
can be used by packagers to prevent the error?  
I don't know how hard it will be to implement such argument in synaptic's 
build system.

-- 
Richard Bos
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