Claude Sylvain wrote:
- Just to report that "update-desktop-database" seems to not work
correctly on Cygwin 1.7.1.
update-desktop-database.exe seems to be affected by a bug in Cygwin's
libtool.
See:
Libtool: Generated manifests need execute permission
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/110870
When compiling update-desktop-database.exe, libtool first creates a
wrapper executable with the same name, for internal purposes. To defeat
UAC, it also creates a manifest file. Unfortunately, it fails to set the
execute bit, so the wrapper is non-functional. As a result, the libtool
wrapper ends up being installed and packaged, instead of the real program.
For a detailed description and test case, see the post referenced above.
- This problem make installation to fail when doing "make install"
on some projects; like "geda-gaf" project.
Coincidentally, it was the very project that lead me to investigate the
issue.
- The workaround I used to get rid of that problem is to replace the
call to "update-desktop-database" by something like "ls" in the
"Makefile" created by the autotools.
Just use ./configure --disable-update-xdg-database
Cesar
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