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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Path settings in Makefile
From:       Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date:       1999-05-27 9:32:23
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On Thu, 27 May 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> > 
> > In a makefile target, how do I get e. g. an icon path
> > _without_ the $(install_root) prefix?
> In 1.1? You can't. And you shouldn't.

Why shouldn't I? I must! Take as an example the file
kdevelop/tools/processes.pl.in. In order to copy an
icon, it needs the icon path. In a previous version,
this was done via $KDEDIR. As $KDEDIR is not necessarily
set, I tried to change the Makefile in such a way that
the script is modified in a Makefile target - namely
by using the makefile variable kde_icondir. Now when
building a package, this doesn't work anymore.

> > On a related topic: The KDE makefiles use $includedir
> > in the 'messages' target. Shouldn't this be something
> > like kde_includedir for consistency?
> > 
> Well, kde_includedir is not what the other kde_*dirs
> are. And KDE uses kde_includedir only on very rare
> places if I'm not completly wrong.

E. g. for the kde.pot file. 

Bernd.

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