[compiz] issues with non /usr install-prefix

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Mon Oct 2 12:51:53 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 19:07 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:54 -0400, David Reveman wrote:
> > This should be fixed now but you should know that it was only a problem
> > when gnome support wasn't built. So the configure script must have been
> > unable to verify gnome support for you. You should also know that the
> > gnome settings module might always be installed outside the prefix as it
> > must be placed in the gnome-window-settings module directory.
> 
> It should be relative to $(DESTDIR) though, otherwise it breaks on most
> packaging systems, dpkg and rpm included. (Well, if packaged as root,
> it'd probably not fail since the file is installed in the real
> filesystem as opposed to the directory being packaged - resulting in a
> "stale" file on the filesystem and a missing file in the package.)

I made some more changes to gtk/gnome/Makefile.am and it should now use
the DESTDIR variable. I verified that it works with rpm.

Thanks,

-David



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