GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605440
GNUmakefile needs possibly unneeded scrollkeeper
Last modified: 2011-06-18 22:33:05 UTC
Dear Meld Developers, I run a GNOME-less environment so i dont have scrollkeeper. Meld works without this. It would be more nice if there was a autoconf/automake script that disables this feature if nog GNOME desktop and utilities is found. It should be very bad to lock else people to use a specific desktop. Look at people who use things like tiled window managers (DWM, Awesome, Scrotwm) or Enlightenment or Fluxbox and want a graphical tool without the bloat. The tool is one of the best out there. And non-bloated. Keep up to good work. Kind Regards, Jerry Jacobs Below i attached the "error". scrollkeeper-preinstall /usr/local/share/gnome/help/meld/C/meld.xml meld-C.omf meld-C.omf.install make[2]: scrollkeeper-preinstall: Command not found make[2]: *** [meld-C.omf.install] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/C' make[2]: Entering directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/de' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/de' make[2]: Entering directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/es' scrollkeeper-preinstall /usr/local/share/gnome/help/meld/es/meld.xml meld-es.omf meld-es.omf.install make[2]: scrollkeeper-preinstall: Command not found make[2]: *** [meld-es.omf.install] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/es' make[2]: Entering directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/fr' scrollkeeper-preinstall /usr/local/share/gnome/help/meld/fr/meld.xml meld-fr.omf meld-fr.omf.install make[2]: scrollkeeper-preinstall: Command not found make[2]: *** [meld-fr.omf.install] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help/fr' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/data/software/linux/source/dev-utils/meld/meld-1.3.1/help' make: *** [install] Error 2
gnome-doc-utils has improved handling of scrollkeeper (including automatic makefile fragments that probably handle your situation more cleanly, and definitely an important --disable-scrollkeeper flag to turn off `scrollkeeper-update` for packager/build-farms). g-d-u is the gnome standard now for this sort of thing, so I'd say "port help/ to gnome-doc-utils" is a feature-request (on all platforms, not just linux).
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 ***