Re: Updating the icon cache (GNOME Goals)

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico novell com>]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:56 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> The Makefile.am snippet only runs gtk-update-icon-cache if DESTDIR is
> empty.  The idea is that distros make install to a temporary DESTDIR and
> the actual install happens later.  In this case, gtk-update-icon-cache
> is not called in make install and it's up to the packager to call it at
> the right time.  This trick is common practice, used at least in
> fontconfig and pango too.

Excellent, this is great to know.  I'll add the Makefile.am snippet to
Sabayon ASAP :)

  Federico