Makefile tries to write outside DESTDIR

[comzeradd]

On SparkleShare/Makefile.in line 789:

install-data-hook:
update-desktop-database $(datadir)/applications

It seems that this is trying to write outside the DESTDIR directly to /usr/share/applications/ causing the build (in my case the rpm build inside a chroot env) to fail. Commenting this line out resolves the problem.

On Linux systems there is no need for an application to run this command because the package does that (at least on rpm distros). One possible solution: only run update-desktop-database if $(datadir)/applications is writeable.

[bl8]

A fix for a similar issue in Banshee, I guess it might help for this issue:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/commit?id=0c6a19c9ce75

[travisghansen]

I ran into this the other day and like the solution mentioned by @bl8. Fix is in http://git.io/jXkEbA