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

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi polito it>]

Hi James,

> 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'
> 

Thanks James, your suggestion helped me a lot.

Hovewer, I still have a similar problem:

ERROR: files left after uninstall:
  (check DESTDIR support)
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/gnome/help/gedit/C/figures/gedit_recent_files_menu_icon.png
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/gnome/help/gedit/C/figures/gedit_window.png
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/gnome/help/gedit/ro/figures/gedit_window.png
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-C.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-ro.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-de.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-es.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-fr.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-it.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-sv.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-ja.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-ko.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-zh_CN.omf
./gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=inst/share/omf/gedit/gedit-zh_TW.omf
make[1]: *** [distuninstallcheck] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/gnome/cvs/gedit-HEAD/gedit-2.3.1/=build'
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1

Is this a known problem too?

Thanks,
Paolo

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