Re: cvs HEAD : images/mimetypes and GNOME_ICON_DIR

["Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean-luc coulon wanadoo fr>]

Le 27.01.2005 20:28:44, Albrecht Dreß a écrit :
> Am 27.01.05 19:19 schrieb(en) Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh):
> > While installing balsa cvs, it tries to install the mmimetypes  
> > icones directly in /usr/share/icons/gnome du to the following line  
> > in the  Makefile:
> >
> > GNOME_ICON_DIR = /usr/share/icons/gnome
> >
> > I build the cvs outside my standard tree (i.e in /opt) and I cannot  
> > do a clean make install.
> >
> > Shouldnt it be
> > GNOME_ICON_DIR = $(prefix)/usr/share/icons/gnome
>
> Well, configure[.in] asks pkg-config about gnome's `prefix' folder:
>
> <snip>
> GNOME_ICON_DIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=prefix  
> libgnomeui-2.0`/share/icons/gnome
> </snip>
>
> The additional mime type icons *must* be installed in this folder, as  
> the search paths are hardcoded in libgnome[ui]. I also have my Gnome  
> 2.8.2 build living in /opt/gnome-2.8, and in the Makefile it reads
>
> <snip>
> GNOME_ICON_DIR = /opt/gnome-2.8/share/icons/gnome
> </snip>
>
> Are you sure pkg-config searched the right lib/pkgconfig folder  
> first? I use the environment setting
>
> <snip>
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome-2.8/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> </snip>
>
> to this end.
>
> Hope this helps,

Ok, it works this way. But I dont want to have my own gnome but only my  
own balsa. So my install scheme tries to install the icons in the root  
tree. So, I've to do that as root and I don't like to break my system  
this way.


> Albrecht.

Thanks and regards

Jean-Luc