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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE directory tree under RedHat
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-10-31 13:49:44
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Frederik Bilhaut wrote:
> 
> On dim, 31 oct 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> >> Is there a "kde-official" way to manage this problem ?
> >>
> >In KDE1 configure checks the libs and compiles a little program to
> >trigger the
> >data files.
> >
> >In KDE2 you just use --prefix and append the prefix to KDEDIRS.
> 
> In fact I was asking this from the developer's point of view. I'm having
> complaints from KMySql users under RedHat 6, especially because they can't find
> the documentation, since my scripts put the docs it into /usr/share/doc instead
> of /usr/doc/kde/.
> 
> I was wondering how the kde developers do solve this problem in their scripts
> (before starting to write a ugly hack in my owns ;)
> 
Well, scripts are evil :)

But there is @kde_htmldir@ to get the right directory at Makefile level
and KApplication::kde_htmldir() at runtime. I'm not too sure if we have
a docdir per se, but kde_htmldir/../ should what you want then :)

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                                      anonymous KDE developer

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