On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:01:01PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:44:55 -0800
> From: Manish Singh <yosh@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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>
> >
> > 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).
>
> (and as it happens, in 1.1 the Gimp library directory is
> /usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1, and so forth. Not very friendly to a
> version-agnostic plugin.)
Well, 1.0 and 1.1 plugins are incompatible at the binary and protocol
level.
> What do you need exactly? We could extend gimptool to provide values
> for the whole gamut of autoconf installation path variables...
>
> The print plugin will at some point have auxiliary files. I'm
> thinking of moving the printer descriptions out of the plugin (where
> they're compiled into presently) and into some kind of text file
> describing their capabilities, and I want somewhere to put those
> files.
Like, say, $(datadir) (typically ${prefix}/share) ?
-Yosh
