Re: Scrollkeeper won't make-install

[Anthony <orders nodivisions com>]

> You can apply the patch I posted in the scrollkeeper-devel list, which
> can be found at
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5313573
> I think it should apply cleanly to the current release.

For now, I've worked around this problem by editing the configure script 
and replacing all occurences of {$prefix} with /usr/local (which is the 
default).  But if that comes back to bite me down the road, or if I need 
to install scrollkeeper again, I'll use your patch.  Thank you.

-Anthony

Mariano Suarez-Alvarez wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:11, Anthony wrote:
>
> > How come I'm the only one asking questions about installing Gnome 2.4 
> > around here?  Is everyone else just a lot better at this than I am?
> >
> > Anyway, here's the latest problem: make install for scrollkeeper does a 
> > bunch of stuff, and then does this:
> >
> > >>>
> > /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/var/log
> > PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" 
> > ; \
> >         echo "`date +\"%b %d %X\"` Installing ScrollKeeper 
> > `scrollkeeper-config --version`..." >> /usr/local/var/log/scrollkeeper.log
> > PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" 
> > ; \
> >         /usr/local/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -q -p 
> > /usr/local/var/lib/scrollkeeper
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> > file or directory
> > ...
> > <<<
> >
> > It just does that forever.  Apparently something isn't turning ${prefix} 
> > into whatever it's supposed to be.  I searched a little and found a 
> > thread referencing this problem, and someone said they were fixing this 
> > and would put the updated tarballs online.  But the scrollkeeper website 
> > has 0.3.12 as the latest version, and that's the same version I'm using, 
> > which I downloaded from the Gnome site.
>
>
> Thi swill happen each time scrollkeeper-updatedb is run, and is caused
> by a problem in the configuration script in scrollkeeper.
>
> You can apply the patch I posted in the scrollkeeper-devel list, which
> can be found at
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5313573
> I think it should apply cleanly to the current release.
>
> This was apparently commited (see
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5351410) but for
> some reason the released tarball for 2.4 did not include it.
>
> HTH,
>
> -- m