Hey, Sorry for a long post, hope you can read through it.
I am seeking an advice on the following. Gtk applications which have icons should install them into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/somesize/somewhere and then call gtk-update-icon-cache (see below [*] for a sample of makefile rules). This should be done on install and uninstall. Similarly, if an application has files for mime database, it should install those files into /usr/share/mime/packages/ and then run update-mime-database, also on install and uninstall. Stuff like this is fairly hard (unless you find editing Makefile.am and configure.ac easy), see for instance this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362604 My question is, is it possible to write some nifty autoconf macros to make this task easy? I would like to have some GTK_MISC_FILES macro in configure.ac, which would make me able to put the following into Makefile.am: GTK_ICONS = myicon.png and have all that gtk-update-icon-cache stuff handled automatically. I can't actually imagine how I would specify 48x48/apps directory here, though I do know I want something nice and simple ;) I can write an autoconf macro which will make me able to do (in Makefile.am) GTK_ICONS = myicon.png GTK_ICONS_DIR = 48x48/apps @GTK_ICONS_MAGIC_RULE@ That GTK_ICONS_MAGIC_RULE would actually expand to a make rule (though I am not sure if I can have two rules in it). But it'd be inconvenient (at least my experience with intltool macros is rather terrible), and it would be impossible to have a rule for mime files in the same Makefile.am (since they also need install-data-hook target). So, is it possible to have such a functionality without changing automake? Thanks! Yevgen [*] Here is a piece of my Makefile.am which installs an icon: hicolor = $(datadir)/icons/hicolor iconthemedir = $(hicolor)/48x48/apps icontheme_DATA = ../moo/mooutils/pixmaps/medit.png update_icon_cache = gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t $(DESTDIR)$(hicolor) install-data-hook: if echo "Updating icon cache" && $(update_icon_cache); then \ echo "Done."; \ else \ echo "*** GTK icon cache not updated. After install, run this:";\ echo $(update_icon_cache); \ fi uninstall-hook: echo "Updating icon cache" && $(update_icon_cache) && echo "Done."
