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>:
> > 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.

thanks - have now applied

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