Hi, Steve Lipa <slipa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > First, the gimp-plugin-template is set up to > use a static gimp-help.xml file that always points > to a web address: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <gimp-help xmlns:template="http://developer.gimp.org/plug-in-template/help";> > <help-item template:id="plug-in-template" ref="index.html" /> > </gimp-help> This is a misunderstanding. The URL given there is just a unique identifier of the XML namespace declaration for "template:". There doesn't need to be any page pointed to by this URL. Please read up on XML namespaces if you want to understand this better or just ask again here. I have posted detailed explanations of the help system earlier on this list. Perhaps we should pull these out of the archives and put them online on developer.gimp.org. > Recent changes in gimp-plugin-template have changed > some things. First, in the file Makefile.am in > the src directory, the idea of a PLUGIN_DIR seems to > have gone away and the gimp-plugin-template puts the > binary in: > > bindir = $(GIMP_LIBDIR)/plug-ins > > This destination seems (at least in my case) to > be controlled by the contents of my gimp-2.0.pc > file and the prefix in that file overrides any > --prefix specification that I use when installing > the plug-in. It seems to me that for general > plug-in users who might not be allowed to write > to the system gimplibdir the following makes > more sense, and it works for me: > > bindir = $(prefix)/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins > > Can anyone let me know which of these is better > and why? The latter won't work if GIMP is not installed in the same prefix and I don't understand your problem with the first approach. You cannot simply install GIMP plug-ins somewhere, they need to go into the GIMP plug-in dir which is determined from the gimp-2.0.pc file. What is probably missing here is the addition of $(DESTDIR). I will consider to add that. Sven
