Re: gEDA-user: desktop-i18n in gEDA

[Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>]

[cc'ing geda-user since it looks like my subscription is all sorted out]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote:

> Charles Lepple wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > sorry to email you directly, but I am having some issues  
> > subscribing to geda-user. (I'll email Ales later today.)
> >
> > I am trying to package up geda-gaf 1.6.1  for Fink, and it is  
> > trying to install some files outside the build root.
> >
> > The whole log is here:
> >
> > http://www.ghz.cc/charles/tmp/fink-build-log-geda-2010-02-17.txt.gz
> >
> > The lines I am concerned with are here:
> >
> > make prefix=../../.desktop-i18n install &&      cp ./ 
> > LINGUAS ../../.desktop-i18n/geda-gschem.LINGUAS    || rm stamp-i18n
> > /sw/bin/gmkdir -p /sw/src/fink.build/root-geda- 
> > gaf-1.6.1-0../../.desktop-i18n/share
> > /sw/bin/gmkdir: cannot create directory `/sw/src/fink.build/root- 
> > geda-gaf-1.6.1-0..': Permission denied
> > make[4]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 1
> > Can you please help me understand what the desktop-i18n code is  
> > trying to do here?
> desktop-i18n needs to use gettext to translate the gEDA .desktop and  
> mimeinfo files. Unfortunately, gettext only works if it's pointed at  
> a a validly-structured locale directory containing compiled  
> translation databases. In order to provide this, desktop-i18n adds  
> rules to the po directory makefiles to 'install' the translation  
> databases into ${builddir}/.desktop-i18n. It appears that setting  
> DESTDIR is somehow interfering with this.
>
> Though they use a very similar package build methodology, the Fedora  
> and Debian packagers don't seem to have experienced this issue; I'd  
> expect to have have heard from them by now! Perhaps there's  
> something they're doing differently?

I think the Fedora build is silently accepting the other directory  
under BUILDROOT:

Making install in po
make[3]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/geda-gaf-1.6.0/ 
libgeda/po'
/usr/bin/make prefix=../../.desktop-i18n install && 	cp ./ 
LINGUAS ../../.desktop-i18n/libgeda38.LINGUAS 	|| rm stamp-i18n
make[4]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/geda-gaf-1.6.0/ 
libgeda/po'
/bin/mkdir -p /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/geda-gaf-1.6.0-3.fc13.i386/usr/ 
share
installing nl.gmo as /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/geda- 
gaf-1.6.0-3.fc13.i386../../.desktop-i18n/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ 
libgeda38.mo
...

That was from the build log here: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/geda-gaf/1.6.0/3.fc13/data/logs/i686/build.log

Apparently that web site requires the exact package name, so here's a  
direct link to the geda-gaf status page: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=9271

The Debian logs that I checked did not seem to show that level of  
detail.

> [ One possibility to investigate is that of running 'make all'  
> without DESTDIR and then 'make install' with DESTDIR. ]

The Fink build process is currently running "make all" without DESTDIR.

I could add a slash to the path being passed into DESTDIR, but that  
wouldn't work either (the build process can't write to /sw/src, just  
its allocated (/sw/src/fink.build/root-name_of_package-ver-rev).

--
Charles Lepple


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