Re: install failure of libgnome (also same problem GConf)

[Robin Cook <rcook wyrms net>]

Haven't gotten to trying it on libgnome yet.  Started with 
bonobo-activation 2.2.0 which gets a similar error.

===================================================================
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/bonobo-activation-2.2.0/api-docs'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/bonobo-activation
(installfiles=`echo ./html/*`; \
if test "$installfiles" = './html/*'; \
then echo '-- Nothing to install' ; \
else \
  for i in $installfiles; do \
    echo '-- Installing '$i ; \
    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i 
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/bonobo-activation; \
  done; \
  echo '-- Installing ./html/index.sgml' ; \
  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./html/index.sgml 
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/bonobo-activation; \
fi)
-- Installing ./html/bonobo-activation.png
-- Installing ./html/home.png
-- Installing ./html/left.png
-- Installing ./html/right.png
-- Installing ./html/up.png
-- Installing ./html/index.sgml
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bonobo-activation-2.2.0/api-docs'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bonobo-activation-2.2.0/api-docs'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
===================================================================

This is the script that is building and installing bonobo-activation.
I have tried placing  "touch $SOURCE_DIRECTORY/api-docs/html/index.sgml 
&&" ($SOURCE_DIRECTORY = /usr/src/bonobo-activation-2.2.0) before 
configure, before make and before make install and it still fails with 
the same error.   The only way I can get it to build successfully is if 
I set $OPTS = --disable-gtk-doc.   Any other solution?

===================================================================
(
   ./configure  --build=$BUILD   \
               --prefix=/usr                   \
               --sysconfdir=/etc          \
               --localstatedir=/var      \
               $OPTS                           &&
  make                                            &&
  prepare_install                          &&
  make    install
) > $C_FIFO 2>&1
===================================================================

John Palmieri wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 09:32, Robin Cook wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to fix this problem?  Below is the last part of the 
> > install of libgnome-2.1.90
> > There are a couple of gnome programs that I have had to add 
> > --disable-gtk-doc to get around this problem.
> >
> > Robin Cook
> >
> > =================================================================
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/libgnome-2.1.90/doc/reference'
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/libgnome-2.1.90/doc/reference'
> > make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> > /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgnome
> > (installfiles=`echo ./html/*`; \
> > if test "$installfiles" = './html/*'; \
> > then echo '-- Nothing to install' ; \
> > else \
> >   for i in $installfiles; do \
> >     echo '-- Installing '$i ; \
> >     /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgnome; \
> >   done; \
> >   echo '-- Installing ./html/index.sgml' ; \
> >   /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./html/index.sgml 
> > /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgnome; \
> > fi)
> > -- Installing ./html/home.png
> > -- Installing ./html/left.png
> > -- Installing ./html/right.png
> > -- Installing ./html/up.png
> > -- Installing ./html/index.sgml
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml': No such file or directory
>
> I see this problem all the time and though it should be fixed in the
> Makefiles the easy fix is to just do a:
>
> touch /usr/src/lihgnome-2.1.90/doc/reference/html/index.sgml
>
> and start the install again.  Basicly it is not generating the
> index.sgml file (perhaps because --disable-gtk-doc is used in garnome
> though I could be wrong) and some of the packages don't relize this when
> they install.  
>
>
> --
> J5