On 05.06.09 10:20:25, David Faure wrote: > On Friday 05 June 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > However I don't think defaulting to the kde install prefix is a good > > idea > > I disagree. Back in the kde3 days I made the autoconf stuff do exactly that. > "checking where to install... /d/kde/inst/kde3 (as returned by kde-config) " > > This is because otherwise your KDE app won't even start, if it uses > parts or plugins.
The application will start, it won't have much functionality though. > You need to set $KDEDIRS somewhere that kde startup will read, and rerun > kbuildsycoca4, when you use another prefix than your KDE install prefix. > So in general it's much easier to install every kde app into the KDE > install prefix. I expect that people that compile from sources are able to find this particular information in whatever tutorial they follow. Else that tutorial is broken. > > will screw their /usr directory. > > How? Typically "make install" as user is not able to write into root-owned > /usr. > So it has to be intentionnal, anyway, in that setup. If a user is confronted with make install needing more permissions than he will just run sudo make install. People do that, without thinking because it'll get them a result in no time. In fact IMHO every of our tutorials should suggest to install into $HOME/foobar and then set KDEDIRS+run kbuildsycoca4. Andreas -- Beauty and harmony are as necessary to you as the very breath of life. _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
