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

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Paolo Maggi wrote:

> 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?
>  
It looks like a case of the makefiles not handling DESTDIR correctly.  
Take a look at the "make uninstall" rules related to those documentation 
files.

James.

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