On Feb 1, 2008 8:06 AM, Yevgen Muntyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Many packages have this requirement to do some stuff after installing their files. IMHO "make install" is not the right place to do these; by putting these post-install actions in the "install" target, many packages break on DESTDIR installs. I would like to see automake one day support, say, "make postinstall" that one could capture in a packaging system build script as "make -n postinstall >package.postinstall".
