Subject: Re: gnome-session seems to be broken
To: Guillaume Valadon <guillaume@valadon.net>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/21/2003 13:01:50
Fixed.  It should build now.

Anyway don't expect gnome-session to work as it is now.  I hope I will fix
it "soon"...

HTH


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:40:13 +0100
Guillaume Valadon <guillaume@valadon.net> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> I tried to install gnome-session today, it just failed like that :
> 
> # cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/gnome-session/
> 
> # make
> ===> Configuring for gnome-session-2.2.0.2
> configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --localstatedir: 
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/gnome-session
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/x11/gnome-session
> 
> It failed because of that part of the Maekefile :
> # grep -n localstatedir Makefile 
> 26:CONFIGURE_ARGS+=     --localstatedir=${SCROLLKEEPER_DATADIR}
> 
> The variable ${SCROLLKEEPER_DATADIR} has disappeared few days ago from
> textproc/scrollkeeper/buildlink2.mk according to :
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/scrollkeeper/buildlink2.mk.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&f=h
> 
> It seems to work fine when putting back :
> .if exists(${LOCALBASE}/libdata/scrollkeeper)
> SCROLLKEEPER_DATADIR=			${LOCALBASE}/libdata
> .else
> SCROLLKEEPER_DATADIR=			${BUILDLINK_PREFIX.scrollkeeper}/var/lib
> .endif
> 
> I hope it helps :*)
> 
> Guillaume
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