New subject: [trinity-devel] Amarok, kipi-plugins sym links

5 Oct 2010

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  To those of you who have amarok and
 kipi-plugins installed. I want to know whether this problem
 is a build problem or a downstream packaging problem.

 Please check the HTML links for the non-English
 directories. For example,

 /usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/amarok

 There will be a sym link to common. Is the link good or
 broken?

 On my system the link points to:

 /usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/common

 I believe the link should point to:

 /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/amarok/common. 
The problem is in the make files and is a remnant from KDE. In KDE I long ago noticed this
problem with several apps: amarok, kipi-plugins, k3b, kpowersave, and kmplayer.

I created a diff patch to the make files. I don't pretend to understand automake, but
after I apply the patch all is well until the build script runs make to build the files.
Something in the make process overwrites the patches or restores the original make files.
I never have seen that before.

Any ideas why the patch won't hold when running make?

At this point the only solution I have is to apply a post-make patch.

If anybody is interested I'm attaching the patch to the make files.

I'll watch other apps as I create Trinity build scripts.

Definitely a paper cut bug.

Darrell

Re: [trinity-devel] Amarok, kipi-plugins sym links