On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > to be fair, xdg-utils *should* be installed by default in any new > installation *and* when upgrading; I'd consider it a bug in the Debian > update process if it didn't. that's the whole point of the xdg-utils > tools, really: provide a stable API for cross-desktop operations.
Hmm. I just checked a few more Debian systems, and 'aptitude why xdg-utils' says it's installed because google-chrome-stable depends on it. Might mean that I've been installing minimalist systems here, and a "more full" Debian install would include it. In any case, it's absolutely possible for xdg-open to NOT exist on the target system, so for the OP, it's a matter of either try lots of things (as I have in my code - it's not compiled, so there's no autoconf, and it's not (currently) packaged, so I can't depend on other packages), or your other two suggestions. As to the original question, though, it's looking clear that #if is the way to do it. ChrisA _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
