On 23 March 2015 at 13:24, David Henningsson < david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote: > > > On 2015-03-23 13:58, Arun Raghavan wrote: > >> The out-of-tree build failure sounds like a bug that should be fixed. >> > > Patches welcome! I tried but didn't really understand what the symlink's > supposed to do in the first place, so I'm not sure how to fix it either. > > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure --prefix=$(pwd) > make > > Results in: > > make[2]: Entering directory `.../pavucontrol/build' > rm -f README > make -C doc README > make[3]: Entering directory `.../pavucontrol/build/doc' > make[3]: `README' is up to date. > make[3]: Leaving directory `.../pavucontrol/build/doc' > cd .. && ln -s doc/README README > ln: failed to create symbolic link â??READMEâ??: File exists > make[2]: *** [README] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `.../pavucontrol/build' > > Looks like this has been a bug since forever: https://github.com/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/blame/master/Makefile.am#L31 Saludos > <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20150323/e273782e/attachment.html>
