Re: "update-desktop-database" seems to not work anymore.

[Cesar Strauss <cestrauss at gmail dot com>]

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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