2007/1/12, 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?
Well, I just remembered a trick how we can workaround this. Please find the attached patch. It's important that the $datadir var is quoted as in the patch, otherwise it won't work. Have fun, Michael P.S: Just in case you are wondering about the patch format: I'm using git-svn to track the upstream SVN and do my own changes.
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