Re: Debian KDE 3 packages using a different kde_htmldir
Hi,
While perhaps related to debian, and packaging, I'd like to add that third
party KDE-based apps also seem unable to locate other files, such as .ui
files, which locate themselves in /usr/local/kde/share/apps/<appname>.
Even though compiled locally, the apps themselves can't then find these
files. I had to move these to my own ~/.kde/share/apps/<appname> as the other
one doesn't appear to be searched properly.
(JuK, for those interested, is broken if compiled on Debian with these
packages, and segfaults when trying to play ANYTHING, until I fixed it as
described above)
Cheers,
David
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 18:39, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ( i'm not sure if this is the debian kde development list, or if it's
> more of a user list, so please refer me to the right place if this
> isn't the place for this )
>
> The only Debian kdelibs patch,
> kdelibs/debian/patches/kdelibs.dirs.diff changes KGlobals to only look
> for html resources that are named "$prefix/share/doc/kde/HTML" ( and
> changes some cgi-bin search path too.. ).
>
> This patch breaks the documentation of all third party KDE
> applications, since these packages ( at least those that use the
> standard KDE build system to install docs ), install their
> documentation in "$prefix/share/doc/HTML", and this is never searched
> by kio_help, even when KDEDIRS is set properly.
>
> So my question is:
> Wtf is this patch intended to fix, and why does it not make sure that
> people installing third party kde apps from source can still read the
> documentation..
>
> Basically, I see three ways to fix this problem:
> 1 remove the patch. This would probably also mean some
> work to make the docs install in the proper place again..
> 2 fix the patch, to make sure it *also* searches in the old place
> 3 keep the patch, and fix the kde build system to make sure that a
> 3rd party source package properly detects where it should install
> its documentation.
>
> What do you think ?
> cheers
> domi
>
> --
> Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
> -- Shakespeare
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