Re: GARNOME 2.9.4 (libgnomesu and gnome-system monitor)

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:19 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:26 +0100, Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
> > Hello Bob,
> > 
> > Bob Kashani wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:23 +0100, Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > The problem is that libgnomesu requires root access to do a 'setuid
> > > root' (i.e. chown root) for certain files. If you don't have root access
> > > then libgnomesu will fail to install and your build will stop. The only
> > > solution for now is to remove g-s-m and libgnomesu from desktop if you
> > > don't have root access.
> > Thanks for your concern. Yes, I am aware of that. I simply would not 
> > expect a 'make garchive' have any problem as it does not install 
> > anything, merely fetching+checksumming the sources.
> > However, as I look at my logs, it seems the 'install' target is executed 
> > when doing a 'make garchive' hence the problem.
> 
> That actually is a bug and should be fixed. I probably should have used
> pre-configure instead of pre-fetch. Will fix it in next release. :)

Actually, a pre-extract would probably be better. Try changing pre-fetch
to pre-extract in desktop/gnome-system-monitor/Makefile and run a 'make
clean; make garchive' in desktop/gnome-system-monitor. Does that fix it
for you?

Bob

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Bob Kashani
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome