Re: the location of "sheets" passed to Dia

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 19.12.2008 20:56, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I tried to create a SISSI object, Dia crashed after showing a
> small blank dialog, that never managed to render itself. Fixed that in
> a patch elsewhere, so now here's what the dialog says:
>
>     Couldn't open:
> '/home/sameerds/Dia/trunk/share/dia/sheets/SISSI/1.xml' for reading.
>
> Earlier I used to compile Dia with default arguments, so the same
> dialog earlier showed the following message:
>
>    Couldn't open: '/usr/local/share/dia/sheets/SISSI/1.xml' for reading.
>
> So I tried with a "--prefix=`pwd`" argument to autogen.sh, but it
> still didn't work. The reason is that after running make, the location
> of the sheets directory is "/home/sameerds/Dia/trunk/sheets/". I
> suppose I could use yet another argument to autogen.sh, for the
> "datarootdir" variable and similarly for other related variables. But
> I also noticed that app/run_dia.sh has an environment variable called
> DIA_SHEET_PATH ... is it meant for the same purpose? 
It is not.

> If it is, then
> the Dia code never checks for this environment variable. 
lib/sheet.c(load_all_sheets) has

  sheet_path = getenv("DIA_SHEET_PATH");

> The function
> dia_get_data_directory() in lib/dia_dirs.c only uses the variable
> DATADIR which is set using a compiler argument.
The first is pointing to multiple directories and the latter is one 
directory initialized on *NIX by the auto-tools. On win32 it is
resolved at runtime because fixed installation diors are not common there.

        Hans

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