On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:51:57 -0800 Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > in Gentoo, which installs from > source, $datadir gets changes by the package manager to a special > games data directory, which is one which is not checked by the > desktop menu programs, so my desktop file and icons do not appear in > those menus. ... > * is there some kind of autoconf macro which figures out where > freedesktop .desktop files and icons should be installed and provides > a variable? There must be some reliable way to interrogate the environment for the name of that "special games data directory". Perhaps a utility that reports it, something like pkg-config. Maybe a file in a known location e.g. /etc. Maybe even an environment variable. After all, other packages face the same question. Once you know how to discover the directory name, you can set another variable, not $datadir, to that location. If the operation fails (because it's not Gentoo) you can set your variable to the value of $datadir. Would that do the trick? --jkl _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
