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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDEDIR and KDEDIRS
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-25 12:24:50
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On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Matt Koss wrote:
> 
> > > This was decided against at some point. To keep it simple
> > > (i.e. no option needed for configure, for most people).
> > > If you remove that, most users/developers/me included/... will do
> > > ./configure and the stuff will get installed under /usr or /usr/local. Bah. :)
> > > Check all the instructions we give to users: export KDEDIR and ./configure...
> > > But if configure checked for KDEDIRS first, then we could move to
> > > KDEDIRS step by step (no sudden breakage), and ./configure would still work
> > > without options.
> > 
> > That's exactly my point.
> 
> This is ok if you only have KDE 1.1.x or 2.0 installed. If you
> have both, you have to help configure to find the right
> prefix. (Unless coolo finishes his kde-config idea, of course
> :-)

May I point you to http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html ? ;-)
Switching KDEDIR depending on whether you want to compile/run a
KDE 1.x or a KDE 2.x app doesn't seem terrible to me.

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David FAURE
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