Udo Richter wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: > >>Attached is a patch so VDR does not error during the installation if the man >>directories do not exist. Also, this patch installs the plugins as well as the >>vdr binary when "make install" is used. > > > The PLUGINLIBDIR stuff doesnt work well in practice. First, changing > PLUGINLIBDIR to anything but $PLUGINDIR/lib wont work, because most > plugins compile into $PLUGINDIR/src/$PLUGIN/../../lib. > > Second, the default plugin install location would be > /usr/local/bin/PLUGINS/lib - not very elegant. I use (and suggest) > /usr/local/lib/vdr, and thats not even a sub-folder of /usr/local/bin. > > My suggestions: > - $PLUGINDIR/lib should be hard-coded as compile destination, because > plugin makefiles depend on it anyway. > - As a consequence, plugins-clean should not use $PLUGINLIBDIR, but > $PLUGINDIR/lib for cleaning. > - Install should copy from $PLUGINDIR/lib to $PLUGINLIBDIR, provide > they're not the same. (They are as default) > - Keep $PLUGINLIBDIR as default for -L as it is. > > Its a matter of taste whether the default for $PLUGINLIBDIR should > continue to be ./PLUGINS/lib (compatibility!) or /usr/local/lib/vdr or > similar. > How about we introduce LIBDIR and change the following line: @cp $(PLUGINLIBDIR)/* $(BINDIR)/$(PLUGINLIBDIR)/ to @cp $(PLUGINLIBDIR)/* $(LIBDIR)/
