[PATCH v3] build: update the desktop database after installing the desktop file

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Sat Nov 26 01:43:49 PST 2016


This makes the option to choose Notmuch as mailto: handler show up in
the desktop environment settings. Ignore errors.

---

v3: ignore errors on update-desktop-database. I don't want to skip
desktop-file-install if update-desktop-database is not available, and
if update fails, it's likely a transient error anyway.
---
 emacs/Makefile.local | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/emacs/Makefile.local b/emacs/Makefile.local
index ffa8421ebd45..5fff019da73d 100644
--- a/emacs/Makefile.local
+++ b/emacs/Makefile.local
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(WITH_DESKTOP),1)
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(desktop_dir)"
 	desktop-file-install --mode 0644 --dir "$(DESTDIR)$(desktop_dir)" $(emacs_mua_desktop)
+	-update-desktop-database "$(DESTDIR)$(desktop_dir)"
 endif
 
 CLEAN := $(CLEAN) $(emacs_bytecode) $(dir)/notmuch-version.el $(dir)/notmuch-pkg.el
-- 
2.1.4



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