On Thursday 17 January 2002 16:03, James Thorniley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done a patch for the acinclude.m4.in file which defines how source
> distributions find the KDE install dirs that should make it work around the
> non standard layout in debian (see my earlier posts re: location of docs etc.
> someone has also mentioned the move of config files to /etc/kde2, which this
> should also work around).
Hi James,
great to see something get's done and beside all this flaming.
While the patch is a nice idea for one special case (complete private
build without a kde-config lying around before compilation) it will
give unexpected results in the other cases (I've only looked
at the diff so I may be wrong).
Unfortunately it does not a fix for Debian KDE:
o using kdeconfig from Debian gives you
/etc/kde2
/usr/bin
etc. But admins should install every non deb stuff
below /usr/local.
o problem with /etc/kde2 is not fixed. kde-config --install config
'always' returned /etc/kde2. Nevertheless it's not used during
run time (see below). Therefore for the config entry in /etc/kderc
is required and can not be used to define KDE stuff that's
installed below /usr/local/. :(
Here a demonstration of of the /etc/kde2 problem. I was too
stupid/sleepy to figure out what goes wrong in kdestdirs.* code :(
ds10(1) ~ > kde-config --install config
/etc/kde2
ds10(0) ~ > su - -c "mv /etc/kderc{,.save}"
Password:
ds10(0) ~ > kde-config --install config
/etc/kde2
ds10(0) ~ > kde-config --path config
/home/ach/.kde2/share/config/:/usr/share/config/
ds10(0) ~ > su - -c "mv /etc/kderc{.save,}"
Password:
ds10(0) ~ > kde-config --path config
/home/ach/.kde2/share/config/:/usr/share/config/:/etc/kde2/
ds10(0) ~ >
You see /usr/share/config is compiled into (kdestddir*)
not /etc/kde2. And this is the reason why /etc/kderc
is there at all.
I could not convience Ivan to use the less intrusive link
from /usr/share/config/ instead of /etc/. Both do the same thing:
ds10[0] ~ # dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /etc/kderc
Adding `local diversion of /etc/kderc to /etc/kderc.distrib'
ds10[0] ~ # ln -s /etc/kde2/system.kdeglobals
/usr/share/config/system.kdeglobals
ds10[0] ~ # kde-config --path config
/root/.kde/share/config/:/usr/share/config/:/etc/kde2/
So everything works as before but my KDE cvs build is not
f*** from time to time because it also uses /etc/kderc if
available. /etc/kderc can be really dangerous :(
Achim
> I haven't attached the patch because I'm not sure how much interest there
> would be on this list. If you would like a copy either email me or get it
> from my project on sourceforge
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kcast/kcast/admin/acinclude.m4.in
> It's only been hacked internally, so it should work as a drop in replacement
> for most KDE source distributions (might be worth a try if you cant get a
> distribution to install properly, anyway).
>
> Note this patch is a little dodgy since I'm not very experienced with
> automake, I'm going to write to the kdevelop mailing list and see if anyone
> is interested in taking a look to check I haven't actually screwed it in any
> obvious way ;) If it turns out ok I will submit it to Stephan Kulow who
> appears to be the current maintainer so it might get included somewhere
> upstream, but I suspect it will be undergoing modifications for KDE3 so I
> don't know how it would fit in.
>
> Thanks
> James
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