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RE: Cinnamon-desktop - no rule to build target error message





> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:11:24 +0100
> Subject: Re: Cinnamon-desktop - no rule to build target error message
> From: matthias@tenstral.net
> To: rwobben@hotmail.com
> CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
>
> 2014-02-12 20:06 GMT+01:00 Roelof Wobben <rwobben@hotmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I try to build cinnamon-desktop with debuild I see this error message:
> >
> > make[1]: Map
> > '/home/roelof/porting_work/cinnamon-desktop/cinnamon-desktop-2.0.4' wordt
> > verlaten
> > dh_auto_test
> > make -j1 check
> > make[1]: Map
> > '/home/roelof/porting_work/cinnamon-desktop/cinnamon-desktop-2.0.4' wordt
> > binnengegaan
> > Making check in libcinnamon-desktop
> > make[2]: Map
> > '/home/roelof/porting_work/cinnamon-desktop/cinnamon-desktop-2.0.4/libcinnamon-desktop'
> > wordt binnengegaan
> > test -s ../libcinnamon-desktop/pnp.ids
> > make[2]: Map
> > '/home/roelof/porting_work/cinnamon-desktop/cinnamon-desktop-2.0.4/libcinnamon-desktop'
> > wordt verlaten
> > Making check in po
> > make[2]: Map
> > '/home/roelof/porting_work/cinnamon-desktop/cinnamon-desktop-2.0.4/po' wordt
> > binnengegaan
> > make[2]: *** There is no rule to make target
> > '../libgnome-desktop/display-name.c' neeeded for 'cinnamon-desktop.pot'.
> > Aborting.
> >
> > The tree which I build can be found here :
> > https://github.com/CinnamonDebian/cinnamon-desktop
> Looks like you are discovering loads and loads of Cinnamon bugs here!
> This is a bug in the makefile, because they renamed libgnome-desktop
> and apparently forgot to adjust a patch in the build-system. You can
> create a quilt patch for it and send it upstream.
> Btw, related question: Why can't they just use GJS and have to for it
> to CJS? GJS should be usable for anything in Cinnamon as well, and
> introducing forked code is always a bad thing (= more work for the
> security team).
> Cheers,
> Matthias
>

Yes, and what I find the most surprising it that if I use cdbs the bugs are not there.
Do I have to make a patch in the Makefile ? or somewhere else ?

Why they do not use cjs I do not know and I can ask upstream but Im sure we do
not get a answer.

Roelof


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