Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:24:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, Tomer Weller <spud@i.am>, "<ports@freebsd.org>" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: KDE programs won't compile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906060021480.7262-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <86909xdfa3.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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> How do you mean "depreciated"? Should users not set it, or
> applications not check for it, or what?
[...]
> The 2.0 kdelibs/README states:
> IMPORTANT: most applications need KDEDIR as the directory where KDE is
> installed. Please set this in your login file.
> Of course, this could be out-of-date.
Yes, I think this is out of date, I've just let intertia set in, and
haven't removed it. I seem to recall a bunch of discussion about the
removal of the KDEDIR variable, but as of yet, I still see a lot of
getenv("KDEDIR"). Actually, I just checked this, if $KDEDIR isn't set it
uses the compiletime default, so yes, KDEDIR isn't really needed, as long
as ld can find the libs, and gcc can find the headers.
> I do not know of an alternate mechanism. A brief examination of the
> 2.0 kdebase and koffice configure.in's do not immediately reveal one
> either, other than --prefix. Is this the accepted method, then?
> What if a user wants to install something in a different place than
> the rest of KDE?
I think this is generally frowned upon, but I know kdebase has
--disable-path-check, and I guess if something is based off the "KDE
autoconf gunk" it could easily include that switch. If a program doesn't
use autoconf or doesn't have the switch, you're stuck manually copying
files.
According to Stephan Kulow:
<coolo> blarf: the program has to KStandardDirs::registerPrefix()
<coolo> for now it just won't work
(I'm rather pissed at KStandDirs right now anyways for breaking some stuff
I spent time fixing, but that's another thread).
> Which configure script did you take this from? I see the same code in
> many bits of KDE itself.
kdebase. Well, 90% of the autoconf code is shared between all the kde
modules. It's been setup in the CVS/CVSup module kde-common if you want
to take a look.
- alex
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