An action file is always needed with polkit to describe the privileged
actions that are available to the subject (client program). For GParted
the only available action is to run the gparted shell script as root.
Note that the polkit action file will be installed into location
$(prefix)/share/polkit-1/actions. This is required by the GNU Coding
Standards [1] and to prevent 'make distcheck' from failing [2]. However
polkit only uses /usr/share/polkit-1/actions for it's action files [3].
This dilemma was discussed in this Bugzilla bug 776437 and on the
general Automake discussion email list [4]. The solution is to simply
document in the README file that a manual additional installation step
may be required.
The action file is marked as translatable with the underscore (_) of the
_description and _message tags identifying the string to be translated.
Use of INTLTOOL_POLICY_RULE in Makefile.am to merge translations into
the polkit action file necessitates increasing the minimum version of
intltool to 0.36.0 where it was first introduced in intltool.m4. This
will prevent GParted building on RedHat/CentOS 5 which only has intltool
0.35.0. But that doesn't matter because RedHat/CentOS 5 reached end of
life on 31st March 2017.
[1] GNU Coding Standards, 7.2.5 Variables for Installation Directories
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables
[2] Automake Manual, 27.10 Installing to Hard-Coded Locations
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths
"My package needs to populate the installation directory of another
package at install-time. I can easily compute that installation
directory in configure, but if I install files therein,
'make distcheck' fails. How else should I do?"
[3] polkit(8), Declaring Actions
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html#polkit-declaring-actions
"A mechanism need to declare a set of actions in order to use
polkit. Actions correspond to operations that clients can request
the mechanism to carry out and are defined in XML files that the
mechanism installs into the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions directory."
[4] Not installing to hard-coded locations vs polkit's fixed location
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2017-08/msg00015.html
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
Add support for detecting UDF file systems and formatting hard disks
with revision 2.01 UDF file systems using udftools. Formatting optical
disks or any other media types is not supported yet. Changing label or
UUID after formatting is not supported as the tools do not yet exist.
Bug 784533 - Add support for UDF file system
As the source code is managed in GIT and there is a .gitignore file in
the top level directory specifying file names to exclude from version
control, then the old per-directory .cvsignore files for CVS are
redundant.
Add the only missing and applicable entry from src/.cvsignore of '.libs'
to .gitignore and remove all the .cvsignore files.
Running 'make check' is failing, reporting that 2 of the Google Test
files need to be translated.
$ make check
...
Making check in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/centos/programming/c/gparted/po'
rm -f missing notexist
srcdir=. /usr/bin/intltool-update -m
The following files contain translations and are currently not in use. Please
consider adding these to the POTFILES.in file, located in the po/ directory.
lib/gtest/include/gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h
lib/gtest/src/gtest.cc
If some of these files are left out on purpose then please add them to
POTFILES.skip instead of POTFILES.in. A file 'missing' containing this list
of left out files has been written in the current directory.
Please report to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gparted
if [ -r missing -o -r notexist ]; then \
exit 1; \
fi
make[1]: *** [check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/centos/programming/c/gparted/po'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
'make check' is failing
This is not true, the files do not contain translatable strings. This
is a match for known intltool bug:
False positives from intltool-update -m
https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/545862
Fix by adding the problem file names into POTFILES.skip.
Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
The command 'make distcheck' runs a build in dist directory subdirs
and then runs intltool -m which in turn complains about translations
in a built file:
The following files contain translations and are currently not in
use. Please consider adding these to the POTFILES.in file, located
in the po/ directory.
sub/gparted.desktop.in
See also upstream intltool issue bug report:
intltool confused by separate build-dir
https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1117944
Bug 778628 - Work around automake-1.15 & intltool complaining about
translations in build dir
Marek Cernocky