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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Error in KStandardDirs::findExe (documentations)?
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-09-24 10:17:06
Message-ID: 200609241217.07915.coolo () kde ! org
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Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 00:05 schrieb koos vriezen:
> Hi,
>
> When fixing my local checkout of nsplugin to set env.
> 'XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1' for the viewer process (this little app can
> generate BadMatch pretty fast w/ composite and this not set using
> flash), While at it, I took a look why my tries the other day to run a
> chroot'ed viewer only worked when I renamed the one in /usr/bin,
> despite having /usr/local/bin first in my PATH (where I have the
> dchroot link). Anyhow nsplugin uses findExe, so I checked its
> documentation and it says: "Finds the executable in the system path.".
> Now of course I'm not quite sure what 'system path' refers to, but the
> PATH environment variable is all I can think of (*). However the
> implementation first looks in the defaultbindir and then takes the
> path into account. So unless system path means something different,
> either the documentation or implementation is wrong here
>

Hmm, the documentation is incomplete I'm afraid. We want to avoid that people 
break their KDE by not having KDE/bin in their $PATH - so we always check 
there first. So think of system path as KDE/bin:$PATH and even if you pass an 
argument, it will look into KDE/bin:pstr

Greetings, Stephan
 
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