Re: [gnome-db]Yet more problems

[Serge Pavlovsky <pal re com ua>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On 27 May 2001 13:30:54 +0200, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> > Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >
> > > On 26 May 2001 14:20:02 +0300, Serge Pavlovsky wrote:
> > >> in configure.in
> > >>
> > >> GNOMEDB_oafdir=`oaf-config --prefix`/share/oaf
> > >>
> > >> is completely broken with respect to packaging. it must be
> > >>
> > >> GNOMEDB_oafdir=$datadir/oaf
> > >>
> > >> and many other places broken too.
> > >>
> > >
> > > ok, just fixed this. Please Sean, try again, and if you find any other problem,
> > > please tell us.
> > >
> > > Thanks Serge for the tip
> > >
> > > cheers
> >
> > Just out of curiosity: If I do GNOMEDB_oafdir=$datadir/oaf, then
> > installing from source won't work if I want to install in another prefix
> > than OAF is installed, will it?
> >

>
> > Say you have gnome 1.4 installed (and therefore OAF) under /opt/gnome,
> > and want to install gnome-db under /usr/local, make install will put the
> > oaf files under /usr/local/share/oaf, where oaf won't find it.
> >

i think what the best way is to install _GNOME_-db into the same prefix as _GNOME_ :)

>
> exactly, that is why configure.in was using `oaf-config --datadir`, since this
> is very important. If not installed in the correct place, OAF won't find
> the components.
>
> So, how could we solve this to use `oaf-config...` for source
> installation and $datadir/oaf for packages?
> My first try was to use "GNOMEDB_oafdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix}" in the
> make call in the spec file, but this did not seem to work
>
> cheers
>

actually, i used
make DESTDIR=%buildroot gnulocaledir=%{buildroot}%{datadir}/locale install
in my old  gnome-db SRPM
if this doesnt work, send me last working snapshot and i'll send you .spec for it.

>
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