[Xastir] Font error during compile
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Fri Jul 25 18:54:13 EDT 2008
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:47:44PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <tom at tomh.us> flavor, containing:
> > Tom, look a little farther up in the output for an error that indicates that an
>
> Thanks for the idea. I found this a little farther up:
>
> Fri Jul 25 14:19:13 PDT 2008
> cd . && /bin/bash /home/xubuntu/src/XASTIR/xastir/missing --run autoheader
> autom4te: cannot open autom4te.cache/requests: Permission denied
> autoheader: '/usr/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1
> make: *** [config.h.in] Error 1
>
>
> I investigated and found a bunch of files in the source directory
> owned by root. Whoever configured this virtual machine must have been
> a little sudo-happy ;-). I chowned everything back to xubuntu:xubuntu
> and the update/install went fine.
Yes, that is exactly what happened. I believe that the initial build was
done with "sudo make install" instead of "make && sudo make install",
creating the whole build directory as owned by root.
There were a number of other issues with the Hardy VM, and I planned to
replace it with a fixed one but never had the time. I am unlikely to have the
time any time soon, either. If Lee puts a new one together we can perhaps
get it uploaded to replace the one that's there now. If I ever get around to
creating a new one, I'll also do it with "pyNeighborhood" pre-installed, since
vmware-tools doesn't implement drag-and-drop file transfers between windows
host and Xubuntu guest as it does for other linux distros. But again,
I haven't had time to do that and was thankful when Lee did the Hardy VM
in the first place.
I don't even remember what all the little issues were, I'll have to dig
through the list archives to find them. As I recall, there is also an issue
with Berkeley DB --- the headers and libraries are mismatched, meaning that
map caching doesn't work. To fix it, you would have to remove the
libdb4.4-dev that is installed, and instead install libdb4.x-dev where "x"
matches the highest number of an installed "libdb4.x" package installed.
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