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Re: [trinity-devel] Amarok, kipi-plugins sym links

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:41:36 -0500
>> To those of you who have amarok and
>> kipi-plugins installed. I want to know whether this problem
>> is a build problem or a downstream packaging problem.
>>
>> Please check the HTML links for the non-English
>> directories. For example,
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/amarok
>>
>> There will be a sym link to common. Is the link good or
>> broken?
>>
>> On my system the link points to:
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/common
>>
>> I believe the link should point to:
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/amarok/common.
>
> The problem is in the make files and is a remnant from KDE. In KDE I long
> ago noticed this problem with several apps: amarok, kipi-plugins, k3b,
> kpowersave, and kmplayer.
>
> I created a diff patch to the make files. I don't pretend to understand
> automake, but after I apply the patch all is well until the build script
> runs make to build the files. Something in the make process overwrites the
> patches or restores the original make files. I never have seen that
> before.
>
> Any ideas why the patch won't hold when running make?

You need to change the Makefile.am files, as the Makefile.in and final
Makefile files are generated from Makefile.am.

>
> At this point the only solution I have is to apply a post-make patch.
>
> If anybody is interested I'm attaching the patch to the make files.
>
> I'll watch other apps as I create Trinity build scripts.
>
> Definitely a paper cut bug.
>
> Darrell
>
>
>