Re: Using jhbuild

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Cédric Marcone wrote:

> Just a little question
>
> if I added --prefix=/opt/gnome2 in my ~/.jhbuildrc, should I specify
> --sysconfdir=/opt/gnome2/etc ?
>
> I saw that some modules will write conf files in $PREFIX/etc without
> specifying it, but others (libglade for example) will access /etc.
>
> Is there a rule ? If yes, what is it ?
>  
sysconfdir defaults to $(prefix)/etc, so you shouldn't need to set it. 
In the libglade example you gave, it tries to write to /etc/xml/catalog 
because that is where libxml looks for the catalog.  If it can't write 
to /etc/xml/catalog, it ignores the error (adding the DTD to the catalog 
is helpful for the developer, but not required -- libglade and glade do 
not validate when loading .glade files).

James.

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