Re: gnome-libs install trouble: gnome-gen-mimedb



Adam Powell wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Trying to build an RPM from the gnome-libs-1.08 tarball gave me the
> following error during the install step in gnome-data:
>
> ../libgnome/gnome-gen-mimedb /var/tmp/gnome-libs-root/usr/etc/mime-magic
>
> make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Aborted

Okay, just used printfs to isolate the problem, and it appears to be
aborting in g_get_home_dir().  Since I have glib only from RPM, I can't
debug further. :-(

> I went back into the build directory and tried to execute
> gnome-gen-mimedb again, but it just gave back "Aborted".
>
> So, I checked out gnome-libs from CVS (4:00 PM EDT), tried 'make dist'
> to buld a tarball (to build an rpm), but failed again, this time in
> libgnomeui/pixmaps:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/redhat/CVS/gnome-libs/libgnomeui/pixmaps'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../tools/convertrgb/convertrgb',
> needed by `gnome-stock-imlib.h'.  Stop.

just updated CVS, same behavior. :-(

> There is of course a perfectly good convertrgb target in
> ../../tools/convertrgb/Makefile...
>
> System: LinuxPPC R4 on a StarMax 3000, egcs-1.1.2 (stock, not
> PPC-modified), kernel 2.2.5 (with only the glibc-1.99 patch),
> autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4, libtool-1.2d.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Adam      "...the firmament sheweth His handywork" (Ps 19:1)    ///
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