[bug-gnutrition] Failed build/install on Kubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

[Richard Smith]

I'd like to check out gnutrition but I'm having some difficulty getting 
it installed and running.  I've tried both released and the current 
devel branch from the repository 
bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/gnutrition/trunk/

The released version .32 fails to make for me with the following.

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc'
db2html gnutrition.sgml
output is gnutrition
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#html
Working on: /home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml
openjade:/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml:1:59:W: cannot 
generate system identifier for public text "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook 
V3.0//EN"
openjade:/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml:1:60:E: reference 
to entity "BOOK" for which no system identifier could be generated
openjade:/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml:1:0: entity was 
defined here
openjade:/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml:1:60:E: DTD did 
not contain element declaration for document type name
openjade:/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml:2:6:E: element 
"BOOK" undefined
openjade:/home/src/gnutrition-0.32/doc/gnutrition.sgml:3:12:E: element 
"BOOKINFO" undefined

<snip> Lots of other undefined elements.


The trunk version makes and installs but only after I manually made the 
/usr/local/share/gnutrition directory.

However, it does not run in the general case.  It fails with an import 
error importing 'src.run_app'.

Looking at the gnutrition startup code I don't see how its supposed to 
work.  The app tries to find the location of the 
$prefix/share/gnutrition but its starting with the current local 
directory rather than the full path to $prefix/bin/gnutrition so in my 
case it ends up adding '/home/share/gnutrition' to the path rather than 
'/usr/local/share/gnutrition'.

If I change the working directory to /usr/local/bin first and then run
gnutrition it loads and runs.

Seems like the install procedure failed to correctly identify and setup 
$prefix.  Did I not do something correctly?  I installed by running 
autogen.sh, make, and sudo make install.

-- 
Richard A. Smith