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. I'm raising this here rather than submitting a patch to make the macro more like my own code, because I'm not sure that unconditionally using PREFIX is a good idea, and I don't yet know how it can be done just for an Automake environment (anyone?). But I do think that this functionality ought to be available to Automake users, particularly as Mitch's Plug-in Template (on which my plug-in is founded) is Automake-based. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
