4.6 installer: glade files installed to global prefix

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:59:08 +0100
schrieb Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:35:49 +0100, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
> wrote:
> 
> G'Morning,
> 
> >I just played with the installer a bit and created the necessary
> >files to create an installer for 4.6. I did a test run, installing
> >to /home/jannis/local as a normal user and I ran into a problem with
> >the gladeui files. I don't have the log at hand right now, but I know
> >that the build scripts tried to install stuff from libxfcegui4/glade/
> >into the gladeui prefix (/usr/share/glade3 or something). 
> >
> >So, for the installer this is a bit problematic. A lot of people will
> >try to run the installer as a normal user and if they happen to have
> >libgladeui they will run into this problem. Any ideas how to fix
> >that?
> 
> I use the following ./configure options to build my Xfce
> in /home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn:
> 
> for libxfcegui4:
> --with-libglade-module-path=$prefix/libglade/2.0/
> 
> for xfce-utils:
> --with-xsession-prefix=$prefix
> 
> $prefix is:
> prefix="/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn"
> 
> And to get the libxfce4gui stuff working when running, you need to
> make the LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH public, the following is a snippet from
> my ~/.bashrc:
> 
> # for libxfcegui4
> export LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH=/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/libglade/2.0/:
> $LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH

It looks like this affects both, the gladeui as well as the normal
glade stuff. Bad. I guess the installer won't work unless we find a
platform-independent way to define $LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH somewhere.

.bashrc is not really an option because not everyone uses bash. We
*could* add a 'gladedir' variable to libxfcegui4-1.0.pc and use 

  export LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH="$LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH \
           `pkg-config --variable=gladedir libxfcegui4-1.0.pc`"

in startxfce4 or the xinitrc script to define it. Any other ideas?

  - Jannis
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