Re: Scrollkeeper won't make-install

[Mariano Suarez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:11, Anthony wrote:
> How come I'm the only one asking questions about installing Gnome 2.4 
> around here?  Is everyone else just a lot better at this than I am?
> 
> Anyway, here's the latest problem: make install for scrollkeeper does a 
> bunch of stuff, and then does this:
> 
>  >>>
> /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/var/log
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" 
> ; \
>          echo "`date +\"%b %d %X\"` Installing ScrollKeeper 
> `scrollkeeper-config --version`..." >> /usr/local/var/log/scrollkeeper.log
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" 
> ; \
>          /usr/local/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -q -p 
> /usr/local/var/lib/scrollkeeper
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> Cannot create log file: ${prefix}/var/log/scrollkeeper.log : No such 
> file or directory
> ...
> <<<
> 
> It just does that forever.  Apparently something isn't turning ${prefix} 
> into whatever it's supposed to be.  I searched a little and found a 
> thread referencing this problem, and someone said they were fixing this 
> and would put the updated tarballs online.  But the scrollkeeper website 
> has 0.3.12 as the latest version, and that's the same version I'm using, 
> which I downloaded from the Gnome site.

Thi swill happen each time scrollkeeper-updatedb is run, and is caused
by a problem in the configuration script in scrollkeeper.

You can apply the patch I posted in the scrollkeeper-devel list, which
can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5313573
I think it should apply cleanly to the current release.

This was apparently commited (see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5351410) but for
some reason the released tarball for 2.4 did not include it.

HTH,

-- m


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Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
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Ciudad Universitaria, Pab. I. (1428) Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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