Re: GARNOME 2.9.1 shared-mime-info problems

[Sid Boyce <sboyce blueyonder co uk>]

guenther wrote:
> > > Dude, you where just trying to build a HTML document. :-)
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2004-November/msg00067.html
> >
> > # for p in bootstrap/{dbus,shared,hicolor,desktop}*; do cd $p; sed 
> > "s/Software/software/" Makefile > temp; mv temp Makefile; cd ../../; done
>
>
> Uhm, is that a root prompt?
>
> You should not build Garnome as root. It's not a wise decision, unless
> you *really* know what you are doing and like to live on the dangerous
> side of life.
>
> If you want to share the built Gnome Desktop with other users, you sure
> can without building as root.
>
>
>
> > make[6]: Entering directory 
> > `/ftp/nov04/garnome-2.9.1/bootstrap/shared-mime-info'
> > [===== NOW BUILDING:    shared-mime-info-0.15   =====]
> >         [fetch] complete for shared-mime-info.
> >  ==> Running checksum on shared-mime-info-0.15.tar.gz
>
>
> You are still trying to build the already downloaded file. (yes, the
> HTML document ;-)
>
> Running 'make clean' in bootstrap/shared-mime-info will solve your
> issue.
>
> FWIW: You need to run that command, before downloading. Otherwise, there
> already is a file downloaded. You can see from the snippet above, that
> Garnome doesn't even try downloading the file, cause it is already
> present in the download dir.
>
> ...guenther
Thanks, the make clean did the trick. This is just a quick test build. I 
shall rebuild later as a user if this is successful.
Regards
Sid.
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