4.6 installer: glade files installed to global prefix

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:54:16 +0100
schrieb Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:

> Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:36:03 -0800
> schrieb "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:
> 
> > Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Yeah, xinitrc is the place for this.  Be sure to hard-code the
> > *result* of running that pkg-config command, not the command
> > itself... no need to shell out again, and I don't want to assume
> > pkg-config is available at runtime (tho in practice it should be).
> 
> Done. 
> 
> > Also should do something like this instead:
> > 
> > xfce_libglade_path=/path/to/whatever
> > if test "x$LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH" = "x"; then
> >    LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH="$xfce_libglade_path"
> > else
> >    LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH="$LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH:$xfce_libglade_path"
> > fi
> 
> Does that really matter? If it does, I can add it.
>  
> > I also wonder if we should test to make sure that
> > $xfce_libglade_path != $default_libglade_path, and if not, then
> > don't set the env var.  But I guess it doesn't matter.
> 
> Yeah, probably not.
> 
> > We should also do this for GLADE_MODULE_PATH -- less critical since
> > it's only for developers, but it doesn't hurt to be complete.
> 
> Done, and I also did it for GLADE_CATALOG_PATH and GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH.
> 
> > Actually, if we do all this, then we might want to consider
> > defaulting the libglade/glade modules paths to $libdir rather than
> > libglade/glade's $libdir.  
> 
> Yes, I second this. It also is the final piece to make the installer
> work again.

(1)
 
> > But in that case I'd want to move this env
> > var setting to startxfce4, since people with custom xinitrc files
> > will miss this change and have broken dialogs.
> 
> You know better than I do where it belongs. Up to you.

(2)

Can we decide on what do about (1) and (2) now? I'd like to get this
thing sorted out before RC1. 

Cheers,
Jannis
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