Problem using checkinstall for G2 svn

[David Hampton]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:53 -0400, digger vermont wrote:

> 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.

I still think its a bug in the install script.  It shouldn't matter
whether that file is a link or a copy.  The installation should always
attempt to install the file as <prefix>/share/gnucash/doc/COPYING
and never as /usr/share/automake-1.9/COPYING.

David