kcontrol/infocenter patch

Helge Deller deller at gmx.de
Wed Oct 30 23:16:51 GMT 2002


On Thursday 31 October 2002 00:11, David Faure wrote:
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> On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23:58, Helge Deller wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23:51, David Faure wrote:
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> > > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23:42, Helge Deller wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23:30, David Faure wrote:
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> > > > > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 23:20, Helge Deller wrote:
> > > > > > Running "make install" in kdebase/kcontrol/kcontrol produces
> > > > > > currently the following "Error" if KDE hasn't been installed yet:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rm: cannot remove `/opt/kde/bin/kinfocenter': No such file or
> > > > > > directory make[4]: [install-data-local] Error 1 (ignored)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The attached patch fixes this for me.
> > > > > > Ok to commit ?
> > > > >
> > > > > A simple -f after rm would do the job too ;)
> > > > > (No need to create the symlink in the build dir)
> > > >
> > > > No, I think we had that once in the Makefile and it broke on
> > > > some other arches than i386.
> > >
> > > AFAIK nobody complained about e.g.
> > > kdebase/kcontrol/fileshare/Makefile.am since it uses "-rm -f".
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> > Ok, then I'll commit your "-f" solution, but I still think my second
> > patch is a nicer solution  :-)
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> In all theory, if someone had a wrong symlink named kinfocenter (pointing
> to the wrong thing), "make install" wouldn't fix it, with your 2nd patch.

Sure, but that's really, _really_ hypotetical.

Helge





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