4.6 installer: glade files installed to global prefix

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:35:49 +0100
schrieb Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:

> 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`"

This has to be 

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

of course.

  - Jannis
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