On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:48:29PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote: > 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). What do you need exactly? We could extend gimptool to provide values for the whole gamut of autoconf installation path variables... -Yosh
