Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2016 um 18:43:03, schrieb Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> > Kornel Benko wrote: > > > ATM cmake installs almost everything under the installation directory. > > Exceptions are (defaults for versioned) > > manuals /usr/local/man, (e.g. /usr/local/man/man1/man1/lyxclient2.3.1) > > lyx-icon /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/lyx2.3.svg > > desktop /usr/local/share/applications/lyx2.3.desktop > > > > So, under the installation directory we find directories > > bin, bind, commands, doc, examples, fonts, images, kbd, layouts, locale, > > lyx2lyx, scripts, templates tex, ui > > Thanks for the explanation, now I understand what is meant. IMHO we should > follow the GNU standards (which autotools do): > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables > > This means we have a prefix (defaults to /usr/local and is set to /usr by > distro packagers). Everything is installed below the prefix. The listed > exceptions above would fit in this scheme, but the differences are in the > second list: > > All LyX specific directories (bind, commands, doc, examples, images, kbd, > layouts, lyx2lyx, scripts, templates, ui) should be under $datadir which > defaults to $datarootdir/$package, e.g. /usr/local/share/lyx2.3 > ($datarootdir defaults to $prefix/share). > > The remaining directories from the second list would be located as follows: > > bin: $prefix/bin > fonts: $datarootdir/fonts/truetype/$package > locale: $datarootdir/locale > tex: $datarootdir/texmf/tex/latex/$package
OK.
> Both the binaries in $bin and the translations in $locale would get a
> version suffix.
Version suffix for bin and locales is already used as expected.
> For windows the easiest thing would be to set both $prefix and $datarootdir
> to the same installation directory. The only thing which would be special
> would be the TeX files.
I think, there is nothing to do for windows yet, because it uses already cmake.
> > Each of them _could_ be installed on different place, one has only to
> > specify where do we want them. The prerequisite (IMHO) is that we should
> > be able to install different versions at the same time. Without conflicts.
>
> Yes. In addition, there are certain standards that should be followed, so
> that e.g. translations are found without special configurations.
>
Yes.
> Georg
Kornel
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