Problem using checkinstall for G2 svn

[digger vermont]

Hi Derek,

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:02 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Um, why is it trying to pull in /usr/share/automake-1.9/COPYING?  That
> looks like a bug in your .deb scripts.  This is not a gnucash problem.
> 
> -derek
> 

Okay.  It a stretch for me to understand all this stuff at once stuff.

It looks to me like autogen.sh calls automake-1.9 with the option
"--add-missing".  By default the option links the files rather than
copy. So that links some files in the /usr/share/automake-1.9 directory
to the gnucash directory including COPYING and INSTALL.

Regardless of who's problem it is, adding the option "--copy" to
automake-1.9 in autogen.sh solved my problem.  If it could be helpful to
anyone else I can file a bugreport for it.

Thanks

digger

> Quoting digger vermont <dv_mlist at verizon.net>:
> 
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm trying to make a deb pkg using checkinstall.  In the end I get these
> > errors:
> >
> > Selecting previously deselected package gnucash-svn.
> > (Reading database ... 147597 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking gnucash-svn (from .../gnucash-svn_r14358-1_powerpc.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error
> > processing /home/digger/src/SVN/gnucash/gnucash-svn_r14358-1_powerpc.deb
> > (--install):
> > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/automake-1.9/COPYING', which is also in
> > package automake1.9
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /home/digger/src/SVN/gnucash/gnucash-svn_r14358-1_powerpc.deb
> >
> > I get this error with the default prefix of /usr/local/ and I've now
> > tried /opt with the same result.
> >
> > Given that I don't have this problem using checkinstall to build other
> > packages, does this look like a problem with G2's installation?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > digger
> >
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