On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:48:29PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:49:14 -0800
> From: Manish Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> > Gimptool has no specific way to echo the name of the Gimp installation
> > directory. There are options for installing things, for getting
> > flags, and such, but nothing to simply report where the Gimp is
> > installed.
> >
> > The issue here is that I'd like change the printer descriptions inside
> > the print plugin to use a control file of sorts rather than having all
> > the capabilities hardcoded in the driver (forcing a recompile to make
> > even minor changes). Right now I can get by with --install-bin and
> > such, but that won't help me if I need to install auxiliary files.
>
> gimptool --prefix and gimptool --exec-prefix will give you these dirs.
>
> All they give me is /usr/local; they don't tell me where the Gimp is
> really installed (I have to know a lot about the Gimp's structure to
> use this output).
What do you need exactly? We could extend gimptool to provide values
for the whole gamut of autoconf installation path variables...
-Yosh
