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bug #15155: autotool stuff assumes that icons and desktop entries go under datadir

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Submitted on:  Tue 06 Dec 2005 07:50:08 PM UTC  
 
Severity: 3 - NormalStatus: Fixed
Assigned to: Stephane Magnenat <nct>Open/Closed: Closed
Release: NoneOperating System: None

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Mon 24 Dec 2007 03:02:05 PM UTC, comment #5:

autotool is not used anymore

Stephane Magnenat <nct>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Mon 13 Mar 2006 07:02:34 PM UTC, comment #4:

Can't you just remove them? I cant see anywhere they are used on windows or Mandriva. Is it a debian thing?

Kieran <k776>
Project Administrator
Sun 12 Mar 2006 03:42:28 PM UTC, comment #3:

It's not me who added the icon stuff. Please provide some patch to improve the situation.

Thanks

Steph

Stephane Magnenat <nct>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 08 Mar 2006 07:32:11 PM UTC, comment #2:

Not just Gentoo. Mandriva also. And this is very annoying when it comes to making my Mandriva RPM because of the reason the person who reported this pointed out. It would be nice not too have to install them in different places!

Kieran <k776>
Project Administrator
Tue 06 Dec 2005 08:03:55 PM UTC, comment #1:

This is mainly an issue for Gentoo - the best place to ask for more information is in #gentoo-games on freenode. There are also e-mail addresses, which I won't put here in case they get spammed, but can be found in the IRC logs for today.

Andrew Sayers <andrew_sayers>
Tue 06 Dec 2005 07:50:08 PM UTC, original submission:

in data/Makefile.in and data/icons/Makefile.in there are a couple of directories that are setup - glob2linkdir and glob2icondir.

Right now, they use $(datadir)/... but that's a bad assumption.
For example, on Gentoo, datadir will probably be /usr/share/games but that is user-configurable. This, of course, results in the desktop file being installed in /usr/share/games/applications and the icon files being installed in /usr/share/games/pixmaps, neither of which is searched by the gnome/kde desktops, etc.

A better solution would be to add an icondir and desktopdir option to configure to allow distributions to set the directory to the proper value for that distribution.

Please see the autotools docs for the proper way to do that.

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Mon 24 Dec 2007 03:02:05 PM UTCnctStatusConfirmed=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 08 Mar 2006 07:32:11 PM UTCk776StatusNone=>Confirmed
    Tue 06 Dec 2005 08:03:55 PM UTCandrew_sayersAssigned toNone=>nct

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