[Bug-freedink] Re: DFarc "make install" problem/question/finnish translation.

[Petteri Tolonen]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> I see the problem, but I don't understand how this could happen!
>
> The build fails at share/Makefile.am:
>         $(XDG_ICON_RESOURCE) install --context mimetypes --size 32      \
>                 $(srcdir)/pixmaps/dfarc.png $(mimetype)
> But apparently your $(XDG_ICON_RESOURCE) is empty, and so the build
> tries to run 'install', the first argument :)
>
> However, the presence of XDG_ICON_RESOURCE is checked in configure.ac,
> and if it's missing, 'HAVE_XDG' is not defined, and the build installs
> the icon differently.
>
> So, to fix your problem for a source package, you probably just need
> to depend on "xdg-utils". But I still wonder how you get this error %)
>
>
> Note: if this is not a source package, but a binary package, then
> things get complicated because the .desktop file need to be installed
> and registered in a post-install script.  I don't know if this is the
> case here.
>
>
>   
This is a source package. I installed xdg-utils and now I get:
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/usr/bin/xdg-icon-resource install --context mimetypes --size 32    \
       ./pixmaps/dfarc.png application-x-dmod
xdg-icon-resource: No writable system icon directory found.
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I tried: export XDG_ICON_RESOURCE=$HOME/.icons and install went trough 
fine even though that directory doesn't even exist. Should I just put 
something to XDG_ICON_RESOURCE to make it work? That doesn't sound good.

> The default location for source installs in 'autoconf' is /usr/local,
> so I just reproduced that behavior.  But for packages, you can specify
> PREFIX :)
>
>         make install PREFIX=/usr
>
> For binary packages I also supported DESTDIR to install in a temporary
> directory instead of '/'.
>
>   

Thanks for the info. I'm such a noob with autoconf and make :)

> PS: do you mind if I bounce this message to address@hidden This
> is a public mailing list and this might help other people :)
>
>   
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