Enrico Sardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > glpegsolitaire.desktop > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Peg Solitaire > Comment=A "Peg Solitaire" for Gnome > Exec=glpegsolitaire > Icon=glpegsolitaire.png > Terminal=false > Type=Application > Categories=GNOME;Game;BoardGame > StartupNotify=true > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > and I want that if I give the command "make install" the path in the > Exec field will be replaced by the value of the $(datadir) variable. Is > this possible?
Use @DATADIR@ in glpegsolitaire.desktop.in and put this in your makefile: glpegsolitaire.desktop: $(srcdir)/glpegsolitaire.desktop.in sed 's:@DATADIR@:$(datadir):' $(srcdir)/glpegsolitaire.desktop.in > glpegsolitaire.desktop.in Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."