Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:49:14 -0800 From: Manish Singh <yosh@xxxxxxxx> Cc: gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote: > Gimptool has no specific way to echo the name of the Gimp installation > directory. There are options for installing things, for getting > flags, and such, but nothing to simply report where the Gimp is > installed. > > The issue here is that I'd like change the printer descriptions inside > the print plugin to use a control file of sorts rather than having all > the capabilities hardcoded in the driver (forcing a recompile to make > even minor changes). Right now I can get by with --install-bin and > such, but that won't help me if I need to install auxiliary files. gimptool --prefix and gimptool --exec-prefix will give you these dirs. All they give me is /usr/local; they don't tell me where the Gimp is really installed (I have to know a lot about the Gimp's structure to use this output). -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
