Re: GTK on Macintosh OSX

[Christian Dywan <christian lanedo com>]

Am Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:47:21 -0700
schrieb John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>:

> 
> On Jul 12, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> 
> > Glib on Win32 has routines to solve this problem. It resolves things
> > relative to where the Glib DLL is installed. If your applications
> > use the XDG data directory functions in Glib, you might get away
> > with this too. Maybe you could invent something similar that used
> > the OSX bundle as your point of reference.
> >
> 
> 
> The routines only solve the problem if they're used.
> 
> Don't need to invent anything. The core foundation functions are
> easy to use, and Richard Hult already abstracted it into a gobject.
> But the code still has to be patched. It's not just application code,
> either, but infrastructure libraries like gconf, gnome-keyring, dbus,
> etc.
> 
> I set up a $PREFIX of /usr/local/gtk, built Gnucash, and ran `find / 
> usr/local/gtk -name *.dylib -exec strings \{\} | grep -H 'local/gtk'  
> \; ` and got more than 100 hits. Many of them are likely to be just
> a define that isn't used for anything, but every one would have to
> be examined, and a goodly number of them would require patching.

It's common enough to scan $PREFIX *and* runtime discovered paths
because the application may be installed in a non-standard place that
is not included in eg. XDG_DATADIRS, so that's not a mistake and will
yield lots of false positives.

Just my 2 cents,
    Christian