libxfcegui4 install error without gladeui

[Mike Massonnet]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:21:54AM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just tried to install libxfcegui4 (make install) and got the
> > following error:
> > 
> > make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/home/enrico/src/xfce/libxfcegui4/trunk/glade' make[3]: Nothing to be
> > done for `install-exec-am'.
> > test -z "" || /bin/mkdir -p ""
> > test -z "" || /bin/mkdir -p ""
> > test -z "/usr/lib/libglade/2.0" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/lib/libglade/2.0"
> > /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/libglade': Permission
> > denied make[3]: *** [install-libglademoduleLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> > 
> > There seems to be something wrong with the glade code. I have
> > installed libglade but prefer to not install gladeui as this requires
> > some Gnome dependencies (gnome-keyring, bonobo, gconf, all such stuff).
> 
> No, there's nothing wrong with it.  That has nothing to do with gladeui. 
>   Read it again -- /usr/lib/libglade is failing to be created.  It's 
> required now, and this unfortunately breaks non-root installs.  If you 
> know of a way to install libglade modules to a non-root location without 
> breaking the install for regular users (missing widgets in the settings 
> dialog would suck), please submit a patch.

It broke on permission also here.  I simply went to trunk/glade and ran
make install in that directory with root perms.

> 	-brian

HTH
-- 
Mike Massonnet
mmassonnet at xfce.org