Ralf Nolden writes: Ralf> On Freitag, 16. Mai 2003 10:57, Chris Cheney wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:41:00AM +0200, Dominique Devriese >> wrote: >> > "tell your users to use the option to ./configure", you mean, I >> > guess, which is why I don't like this option too much.. >> > >> > Do you think there is any way to make ./configure auto-detect >> > this ? Could perhaps debianrules get another output target >> > that would be usable in a shell, and ./configure could source >> > this if it detects it's on a debian system ?
For reference, I sent a patch to Daniel Stone that adds this target, and he told me he would be committing this. However, Stephan Kulow told me he would not put any distribution-specific code in acinclude.m4.in, so it doesn't really help.. >> The best solution that I can come up with is fix the things in my >> other email I just sent to the list and also change the >> documentation dir default and config dir default to something >> saner. ;) Hint /usr/share/config is a FHS violation... Otherwise >> have kde-config provide all paths that are used so that the >> configure scripts can find the right location. Actually doing >> both of the above might be a good idea. Ralf> Please mind what you're doing there - if I understand you Ralf> correctly. It will have a *deep* impact with little noticable Ralf> difference to the user but to all KDE apps that are already Ralf> compiled the way they are now. Yes, I think this problem is a problem for whole of KDE. Maybe we should try to make the change in KDE, however this would probably have to wait for KDE 4 then, since it would not be easy to sanitize the paths stuff while keeping backward compatibility. Changing stuff in Debian-specific patches only creates a different set of annoying compatibility problems, especially for third party source packages, as you can see from the recent discussion about the problems caused by kdelibs.dirs.patch. Ralf> I wouldn't change anything on the current setup - you can Ralf> install the packages but you can also, alongside, compile your Ralf> own CVS and applications into /usr/local (did that here and it Ralf> works fine) Agreed. However, I think that we should maybe try to start a discussion on kde-core-devel about the KDE install paths policy, so that it might get fixed in KDE 4. cheers domi -- Fine day for friends. So-so day for you.
