Re: [Xnee-devel] Fw: xnee package

[Josh Dukes]

yeah, I'll get it, thanx. 

On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:12:42 +0200
Henrik Sandklef <address@hidden> wrote:

> Arrrggg
> 
>  the copy command following the mkdir command uses DESTDIR.... why
> didn't I update the command one line above when this was first
> reported :(
> 
>  It's fixed in CVS head. Can you take it from there? Download CS HEAD
> and do the following:
> 
>       make -f Makefile.cvs
> 
> and then the normal
> 
>      ./configure && make
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Josh Dukes skrev:
> > I sent the source for the package to Ross, but he had some problems
> > with it. I did notice the same thing, but I didn't realize it was an
> > issue. In order to build it I had to use pbuilder
> > --use-pdebuild-internal. It seems like this should be fixed upstream
> > rather than by me.
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:01:43 +0100
> > From: Ross Burton <address@hidden>
> > To: Josh Dukes <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: xnee package
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:55 -0700, Josh Dukes wrote:
> >> I built it with pbuilder and was able to install the debs
> >> generated, and both gnee and cnee ran on my system. As far as I
> >> can tell this is good. I'm going to keep testing it, but I think
> >> it's in your hands now. Tell me if you see anything I might have
> >> missed. -JD
> > 
> > The diff looks good (although very strangely formatted -- did
> > debuild create it?) but when I tried to built it myself it failed:
> > 
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ross/Local/mess/19/xnee-3.02/doc'
> > mkdir -p /usr/share/xnee
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/xnee': Permission denied
> > 
> > The Makefile.am is buggy (well, it's plain wrong).  The problem is
> > that it calls mkdir -p $(docdir) but that should be mkdir -p
> > $(DESTDIR)$(docdir).  You'll want to patch the Makefile.am and
> > Makefile.in so that when configure runs this fix fixed.
> > 
> > Ross
> 


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Josh Dukes
MicroVu IT Department