Re: [gdm-list] at-spi-registryd not starting automatically in gdm [was multiple at-spi...]

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hello Dan,


At 6:36 AM -0700 9/2/07, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>  > What is puzzling me however, is that in Ubuntu 7.04, at-spi-registryd
> >  is also located in /usr/lib/at-spi/. And there, registryd starts.
> >  Ubuntu 7.04 uses gdm 2.18.1.
> >
> >  In my tests of yesterday, the variable command had the value
> >  /usr/local/libexec/at-spi-registryd. Could this be related to the
> >  fact that I did a configure without --prefix? Not that the wrong
> >  value of LIBEXECDIR can be caused by me not doing ./configure as I
> >  should!?
>
> Yes. First, since you didn't use --prefix, the default of /usr/local
> is used. Next, since you didn't specify --libexecdir, the default of
> ${prefix}/libexec is used. Hence ${libexecdir}/at-spi-registryd is
> /usr/local/libexec/at-spi-registryd.


Thanks for the explanation. Would there be a way to make the version 
of a package, that I configure, compile and install manually, 
overwrite the version installed by the distribution package?


>  > I will add links to these emails in the bug report in Ubuntu. Maybe
> >  somebody more knowledgeable than me can do the fix. Otherwise, I will
> >  try my best; probably in two weeks.
>
> I'll try to send you a patch a little later today so you can specify
> --at-spi-dir=/usr/lib/at-spi. If you know that autotools, it's a
> pretty trivial change.

Does this mean, you are doing the change proposed by Brian?

In any case, thanks for your help.

Francesco