misleading message when installing project

[Nicolás Alvarez]

On 11/02/2011, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 12.02.11 00:58:05, Gerhard Stengel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I install kdevplatform and kdevelop built in kdevelop itself I get
>> following som
>>
>> -- Installing: /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/config/kdeveloprc
>> -- Installing: /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/apps/kdevelop/kdevelopui.rc
>> -- Installing: /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/apps/kdevelop/katepartui.rc
>> -- Installing:
>> /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/apps/kdevelop/kdevelop.notifyrc
>> -- Installing: /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/mime/packages/kdevelop.xml
>> - /home/gerhard/.local/share
>> - /usr/share
>> - /etc/opt/kde3/share
>> - /opt/gnome/share
>> - /opt/kde3/share
>>
>>
>> Note that '/home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share' is not in the search path
>> set by the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS
>> environment variables, so applications may not
>> be able to find it until you set them. The
>> directories currently searched are:
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Installing: /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/lib64/kde4/kdevastyle.so
>> -- Installing:
>> /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/kde4/services/kdevastyle.desktop
>> -- Installing: /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/lib64/kde4/kdevindent.so
>> -- Installing:
>> /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/kde4/services/kdevindent.desktop
>> -- Installing:
>> /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/lib64/kde4/kdevcpplanguagesupport.so
>> -- Installing:
>> /home/gerhard/kdevelop4/share/kde4/services/kdevcppsupport.desktop
>>
>> Seems that the paths are printed before the message, but it should be
>> below.
>
> I'm sorry but I don't quite get your problem. Yes if you install
> kdevelop into your $HOME/ then you may need to adjust environment
> variables for some things to be found. I'm don't quite get which of the
> outputs
> above you think are misleading though.
>
> The message about the directories like /home/gerhard/.local/share etc.
> are generated by a CMake macro that we don't control, but I can't see
> anything wrong with that output either.

The message is actually not printed by a CMake macro, but by the
"/usr/bin/update-mime-database" tool during a custom CMake install
step. The error message is printed to stdout and the list of paths to
stderr, so it's not surprising they may lose proper order.

I think this is a bug in update-mime-database.

-- 
Nicolas