Re: Uninstall tries to remove part of glib ?

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

On Sa, 2004-01-10 at 04:23 +0000, Nick Lamb wrote: 
> During a 'make uninstall' of Gnumeric 1.2 CVS the following caught my eye
>
> rm -f /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/gettext/po/po-Makefile.in.in
>
> Now fortunately I don't have glib installed in /usr/local, but if I did
> I wouldn't want Gnumeric's uninstall to go around removing bits of it.
>
> Would someone who understands auto* like to look into this? It happens
> when Gnumeric is uninstalling the po/ directory, here's the context...
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/gnumeric/po'
> catalogs='am.gmo az.gmo bg.gmo ca.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo en_GB.gmo en_CA.gmo el.gmo es.gmo et.gmo fi.gmo 
> fr.gmo ga.gmo gl.gmo he.gmo hr.gmo hu.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo ko.gmo lv.gmo ml.gmo ms.gmo nl.gmo nn.gmo no.gmo 
> pl.gmo pt.gmo pt_BR.gmo ro.gmo ru.gmo sk.gmo sr.gmo sr Latn gmo sv.gmo tr.gmo uk.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo 
> zh_TW.gmo'; \
> for cat in $catalogs; do \
>   cat=`basename $cat`; \
>   lang=`echo $cat | sed 's/\.gmo$//'`; \
>   rm -f /usr/local/lib/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/gnumeric.mo; \
>   rm -f /usr/local/lib/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/gnumeric.mo.m; \
>   rm -f /usr/local/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/gnumeric.mo; \
>   rm -f /usr/local/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/gnumeric.mo.m; \
> done
> rm -f /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/gettext/po/po-Makefile.in.in
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/gnumeric/po'

This isn't Gnumeric's fault, but caused by the po/Makefile.in.in that is
imported into the package directory by gettext/intltool. It isn't
harmfull at all:

po/Makefile, install-data-yes target contains inter alia:
        if test "$(PACKAGE)" = "glib"; then \
          if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
            $(MKINSTALLDIRS) $(DESTDIR)$(gettextsrcdir); \
          else \
            $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(DESTDIR)
$(gettextsrcdir); \
          fi; \
          $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/Makefile.in.in \
                          $(DESTDIR)$(gettextsrcdir)/Makefile.in.in; \
        else \           : ; \
        fi

po/Makefile, uninstall-data target contains inter alia:
        if test "$(PACKAGE)" = "glib"; then \
          rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(gettextsrcdir)/Makefile.in.in; \
        fi

Anyway, thanks for keeping an eye on these issues. Keep reporting
them :).

regs,
 Chris