Hi, On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 14:36 +0100, Toby Speight wrote: > I'm playing around with my plug-in build system at the moment, tidying > up the automake/autoconf stuff as I go (and as I learn about autotools - > I'm a newbie there). One thing I do is find the Gimp plug-in directory > like so: > > /-------- > | GIMP_LIBDIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --define-variable=prefix='DESTDIR' \ > | --variable=gimplibdir gimp-2.0` > \-------- > > On discovering Gimp's own autoconf macro file, I discover that it does > almost what I need: > > /-------- > | GIMP_DATA_DIR=`$PKG_CONFIG $pkg_name --variable=gimpdatadir` > | GIMP_PLUGIN_DIR=`$PKG_CONFIG $pkg_name --variable=gimplibdir` > \-------- > > The difference being that I have passed in the DESTDIR directory > supplied by Automake and used to target the installation. Without > this, "make distcheck" fails because it tries to write to the real > plug-ins directory rather than the supplied staging directory. Yes, that has always been a problem for plug-ins. The plug-in needs to be installed to the GIMP plug-in directory which may be somewhere completely different than what's configured as the plug-in's prefix. I haven't seen a workaround for this yet. If your change works well, we should probably adopt it. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
