On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:35 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: > Hi, > > >Hi, I noticed the new geda and pcb need the configure flags: > >--disable-update-desktop-database --disable-update-mime-database > > > >since I do not have these binaries. > > > >For geda I have to edit the Makefile to add them which is a little odd I > >think > >. I just thought it would be nicer if they were autodetected instead, just > >my > > suggestion. > > > > Yeah, I would like that too. Is this sort of auto detect > feasible for the desktop integration, Peter? A possible alternative > is to add (disable) them by default. I seem to recall having a similar > conversation a while ago, but I don't remember what came of it. Thanks,
The conversation we had before was removing intltool, which IMO is a necessity, given how evil that tool can be (requiring perl and some XML parser module etc..). IMO, it is not in general a good thing to auto-detect and disable things, since it can lead to unexpected configurations when builds _don't_ fail when they should. (E.g. build daemons without the required packages). This said, since these failures are probably minor, and distro-builds need to disable them _anyway_, we can just: PROG_PATH=/usr/bin/update-desktop-database # (Or however we find the program path) if [ -f $PROG_PATH ] then $PROG_PATH ..... fi -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
