宋文武 <iyzs...@gmail.com> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >> [...] >> >> It seems that GTK3 only looks for >> ‘$libdir/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache’ and GTK2 only looks for >> ‘$libdir/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache’ by default, where ‘$libdir’ is >> ‘$out/lib’ of the GTK package. (According to >> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-running.html) >> >> To make IBus work we need to find a way to make the different major >> versions of GTK respect different ‘immodules.cache’ files that are *not* >> located in their ‘$libdir’. In that case we could generate a fresh >> ‘immodules.cache’ file for each major GTK version when building a >> profile. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any documented >> means to achieve this. It might require patching the GTKs to check an >> additional path or environment variable. >> > We can set 'GTK_EXE_PREFIX' to the '~/.guix-profile', and generate the > 'immodules.cache' files in a profile hook. It will work for both gtk2 > and gtk3 applications.
Does this mean that GTK needs to be installed in the user’s profile for this to work? I thought ‘GTK_EXE_PREFIX’ would change the path of ‘$libdir’ for *all* of GTK’s libraries. It can only have one value, not a list of paths to look for libraries. ~~ Ricardo
