RE: Gnome & /usr/local policy
IIRC, this is a known problem in GNOME. I filed a bug on this with them back
in the pre-1.0 days and they marked it as won't fix. A bug relating to this
is probably still in their bug tracker. They don't seem to care much.
IIRC, it's because the prefix gets hard coded into the GNOME libraries. It's
quite ugly actually.
--jeh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog@svana.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:25 PM
> To: Andree Leidenfrost
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; Manfred H. Winter
> Subject: Re: Gnome & /usr/local policy
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:04:22PM +1100, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> > I make './configure --prefix=/usr/local' when building gmmusic.
> > 'make install' then installs all program files under
> /usr/local, which
> > is exactly what I want. Amonst the installed files are
> icons which get
> > installed under /usr/local/share/pixmaps. Unfortunately,
> Gnome programs
> > seem to only look in /usr/share/pixmaps for image files. (A similar
> > problem seems to exist for help files.)
>
> You did everything fine. I'd suggest filing a bug against
> gnome (not sure
> which package though) but I'm not sure what. The only issue
> may be that
> there is no PIXMAP_PATH and thus it's not just a simple
> matter of adding a
> path but adding code to do it.
>
> That however goes a little bit beyond what I know, so someone
> who knows
> better should answer that.
>
> HTH,
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