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Bug 446157 - dealing with scrollkeeper
dealing with scrollkeeper
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 636318
Product: meld
Classification: Other
Component: general
1.1.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Stephen Kennedy
Stephen Kennedy
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-06-10 22:44 UTC by Alexey Rusakov
Modified: 2011-06-18 22:33 UTC
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Description Alexey Rusakov 2007-06-10 22:44:02 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
First, a simple thing. A usual value for localstatedir, at least when autotools are used, is /var/lib; INSTALL file, however, sets it to ${prefix}/var, and OMF_STATE is set to ${localstatedir}/lib/scrollkeeper. Doesn't hurt much, but is a bit non-standard, when I want to override localstatedir.
Second, a harder thing. As a packager, I have to patch GNUmakefiles to disable scrollkeeper-* calls during installation, and ignore stuff from /var/lib/scrollkeeper, since these things are unneeded when you make a package. As far as I see, there is no 'switch' that would disable all this more gracefully. Would be nice to have one, e.g. in INSTALL file.

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Does this happen every time?


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Comment 1 Alexey Rusakov 2007-06-11 14:04:36 UTC 
To be more exact, not all scrollkeeper-* calls, but only scrollkeeper-update.
Comment 2 Vincent Legoll 2008-04-14 16:28:23 UTC 
Could you describe more precisely what you want to be modified,
as I don't really follow from your description.

Tell what part of installation process you want to disable,
for example:
"Disable the installation of *.omf files to XXX directory,
with make NOSCROLLKEEPER=1"

I may be able to help, but know nothing about scrollkeeper, OMF,
etc... I speak makefile though...
Comment 3 Kai Willadsen 2011-06-18 22:33:01 UTC 
Our scrollkeeper handling is likely to be resolved by using autotools and gnome-doc-utils. Marking this bug as a duplicate of bug 636318, since it has more recent discussion.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 636318 ***