libxfcegui4 install error without gladeui

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:22:33 +0200, Mike Massonnet
<mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, usable workaround but still not a fix :(.


Regards,
Enrico

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