[gephex-devel] gephex--main--0.4--patch-1846

[Georg Seidel]

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Am 26.02.2005 um 14:52 schrieb Martin Bayer:

>> But this is a developer only scenario, too :)
>
> But mine :)
>
>>> The current behavior of configure time selection of the default 
>>> location
>>> to search for plugins is problematic for distributions. It is 
>>> difficult
>>> to relocate the plugins after build time. E.g. binary linux
>>> distributions with user installable packages(in the users home) need 
>>> to
>>> patch files at install time.
>>
>> How do you handle this with the debian packages at the moment?
>> Isn't the path substitution handled at install time in 
>> data/Makefile.am?
>> (Cannot check it right now).
>
> At the moment i substitute it at configure time with the value of
> "--prefix=". Substitution during "make install prefix=" is problematic
> cause you need to install the files in a temporary directory that is 
> not
> the final location.

As a compromise we could add the prefix path (the old value) as the
path with highest priority and leave the rest as it is now.

Georg
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