Re: gnome-gen-mimedb crashes

[Lewis Tanzos <lewis tulgey browser net>]

> For several months, I was able to compile rpms of gnome-libs.  Lately I have
> been unable to, because the build terminates with an error.  It looks like
> it happens during the installation phase of the "rpm -ba" (if that
> is correct term).  I had never had to do anything special to get the
> build to work. 
> This is the latest CVS (the .spec file still says the version is 0.30).
> This has not worked for several days.
> 
> ../libgnome/gnome-gen-mimedb /var/tmp/gnome-libs-root/usr/etc/mime-magic
> make[1]: *** [install-data-local] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-libs-0.30/gnome-data'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> Bad exit status from /usr/tmp/rpm-tmp.11295 (%install)

For what it's worth, I have a Slackware Linux system, I get sources
with CVS, and I've been seeing the same error during the install of
gnome-libs.  It started happening around the time of the code freeze.

  - Lewis