Re: [Tracker] tracker build with dpkg-buildpackage

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've always having trouble with building tracker on debian.The problem
> is, that it tries to link something to the install-fs already, but it
> really should not (it would have succeeded if i ran dpkg-buildpackage
> as root!)
>
> [...]
> /usr/bin/make  install-exec-hook
> make[5]: Entering directory `/home/m/src/tracker/tracker/src/libtracker'
> ln -fs /usr/lib/libmetatracker.so /usr/lib/libtracker.so
> ln: cannot remove `/usr/lib/libtracker.so': Permission denied
> make[5]: *** [install-exec-hook] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/m/src/tracker/tracker/src/libtracker'
>
> My preliminary fix for that is attached. Does this interferes with a
> 'normal' build?

I have applied although its a little dodgy - the link created has a 
double slash (//) at the beginning but this does not effect the symlink.

Its only older Nautilus that links to libtracker. New compilations will 
link against libmetatracker.



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