On 2021-01-18, Stefan Koch <stefan.koch10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The line: > Exec=@libexecdir@/usbauth-notifier/usbauth-notifier > > from > https://github.com/kochstefan/usbauth-all/blob/master/usbauth-notifier/data/usbauth-notifier.desktop.in > > will expanded to: > Exec=${exec_prefix}/libexec/usbauth-notifier/usbauth-notifier > > But desktop-Files doesn't allow variables. > > Do you have an idea how to get the line expanded to: > Exec=/usr/libexec/usbauth-notifier/usbauth-notifier > > without the ${exec_prefix} variable? The normal way to do this is to perform the necessary substitutions in make rules, as in make rules you can use make variables which will be expanded correctly. Alternately you could generate the entire file from a make rule which might be reasonable for a small file like this. This is the only way to make your package follow the GNU coding standards, which says users must be able to override these variables on the make command line. For example: % ./configure % make install prefix=/some/where is supposed to work. So to make that happen, the rule of thumb is only reference the installation variables in your makefiles. Hope that helps, Nick
