Problem using checkinstall for G2 svn

[Derek Atkins]

Sure, it's linked into the BUILD directory, but the "make install"
will copy the file to the install tree.

Besides, there's already a deb package of gnucash -- you should use that.

-derek

Quoting digger vermont <dv_mlist at verizon.net>:

> 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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