Re: Help needed to make gedit passing "make distcheck"

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Paolo Maggi wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 	I have problems in making gedit CVS HEAD passing "make distcheck". I
> think these problems are due to the doc build stuff but I'm not sure.
>
> The errors I get are:
>
> rmdir: `/gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit':
> Directory not empty
> make[3]: [uninstall-local-omf] Error 1 (ignored)
> ERROR: files left after uninstall:
> ./var/scrollkeeper/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
> ./var/scrollkeeper/C/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml
> ./var/scrollkeeper/ca/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
> ./var/scrollkeeper/ca/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml
>
> [snip]
>
> ./var/scrollkeeper/index/86
> ./var/scrollkeeper/index/87
> ./var/scrollkeeper/index/88
> ./var/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs
> make[1]: *** [distuninstallcheck] Error 1
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
>
>
> Any idea?
> Could anyone please help me in fixing this problem?
>  
This is a known problem that scrollkeeper does not completely remove the 
indices it creates when they are emptied again, and is not obviously a bug.

If you are using Automake 1.7 however, you can tell automake that it is 
okay for the scrollkeeper stuff to stay around after a "make 
uninstall".  It uses the command $(distuninstallcheck_listfiles) to list 
all the files in the install prefix -- if it doesn't list anything, then 
the uninstall was successful.  The default value for this variable is:

   distuninstallcheck_listfiles = find . -type f -print

To ignore the scrollkeeper stuff, you could add the following to the 
toplevel Makefile.am of your package:
   distuninstallcheck_listfiles = find . -type f -print | grep -v 
'^\./var/scrollkeeper'

Alternatively, you can disable the check for uninstalled files 
completely by adding the following rule:
   distuninstallcheck:
           @:

More details can be found in the autoconf info manual (the "Dist" node).

Hope this helps.

James.

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