[Pkg-kde-extras] Re: kmymoney 0.8.2 build dependency on $(HOME) directory

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Wed Feb 1 21:19:54 UTC 2006


This one time, at band camp, Mark Purcell said:
> When building kmymoney2, there appears to be a configure dependency on the 
> using doing the build having a home directory.
> 
> This is OK for individual users building the package, but is playing havoc 
> with such things as the buildd for the 11 architectures which Debian 
> supports.
> 
> Can the upstream kmymoney team advise why there is this dependency on the home 
> directory being available, and is there an easy work around?

This looks pretty much like a uic problem, and not a kmymoney problem
per se.  strace'ing configure (tedious - you get about 6000 files out of
it) and grep'ing for who is mucking around in home, I see three
occurences of open's in $HOME, and they are all uic.

Hope that helps,
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