Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] autodetect dbus service dir

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2007/1/12, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> > Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Attached is a patch to autodetect the session service dir.  It can
> > > always be overridden with the --with-session-bus-services-dir.
> > >
> > > The name of the patch is slightly misleading (mostly since Im too lazy
> > > to rename it :-p).  It should apply cleanly to SVN head.
> > >
> >
> > thanks thats great - have now applied
>
> Ouch. This patch killed "make distcheck", because the $prefix variable
> is not respected anymore. Maybe it's better to revert the patch?

we need this patch because if you install with a prefix that does not 
match where dbus is installed then you wont be able to activate tracker 
automatically (other dbus aware apps use something similar)

Is there no way make distcheck can get round this?