Re: [Denemo-devel] PATHS and OSX (and Linux)

[Richard Shann]

Looking in the Makefile of the src directory (which says how the .c
files will be compiled) I see definitions like this


prefix = /usr/local

sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc/denemo

INCLUDES = ....
-DSYSCONFDIR=\"$(sysconfdir)/\" 

datadir = ${datarootdir}
datarootdir = ${prefix}/share
pkgdatadir = ${datarootdir}/denemo

So what Denemo does for non-windows compile is to use these values. So
e.g. to get the init.scm for a menu item it creates this filename
filename = g_build_filename(get_data_dir(), "actions", "menus",
menupath, INIT_SCM, NULL);

where get_data_dir() is /usr/local/share/denemo

I can invervene at the C-code level (how do I know it is a OSX build?)
or perhaps you can change the --prefix that is used in the configure
step so that it is not /usr/local

HTH

Richard



On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:05 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> the Denemo paths in osx are wrong. I don't know the reason yet and I mailed 
> janneke about it, but maybe we are faster here.
> while the lib dir is correctly set to ../lib without any modification from my 
> side (gub vanilla) share and etc are off. Denemo still searches in /usr/share 
> and /usr/etc (for example for GTK settings). Gub seems to ignore any 
> configure --prefix I gave it.
> 
> During my search why the paths in my osx build are wrong I saw that Denemo 
> uses /usr/etc. I checked my own linux install and its in /usr/etc here, too.
> This seems to be wrong. Why aren't we using /etc like any other linux 
> software?
> 
> Partly good news: I copied guile and denemos share dir as experiment to the 
> osx systemdirs and Denemo started. It was wrong, because It could not find 
> gtk setting and the fonts because I did not copy /etc, but it started.
> 
> So what now? I am build inexperienced but somehow it must be possible to get 
> those paths right, even if we override them and ignore gubs agenda.
> 
> Nils
> 
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