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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Dbus "interfaces"
From:       James Tyrer <jrtyrer () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2011-12-31 22:41:17
Message-ID: 4EFF8F8D.7010604 () earthlink ! net
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On 12/30/2011 01:23 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday, 2011-12-30, James Tyrer wrote:
>> There are various instances of:
>>
>> ... /share/dbus-1/interfaces/
>>
>> on my system and I can not remember how Dbus finds them.
>
> D-Bus does not look for them.
> Those are development files, similar to headers just a bit more abstract.
>
>> I am guessing that it is with the: "XDG_DATA_DIRS" path, but I didn't
>> quickly find this info with Google.
>
> Probably depends on the build system but whatever mechanism is being used is
> almost certainly checking that variable.
> Could check some additional paths though.
>
>> Does anyone know for sure or have a link to documentation?
>
> No idea, but my guess is that for KDE's build system (cmake) there will most
> likely be a cmake macro in kdelibs' cmake modules.
>
>> Apparently, I was not able to find this information previously since my
>> tutorial:
>>
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Tutorials/D-Bus/Configuration
>>
>> doesn't seem to cover that. :-)
>>
>> Help would be appreciated so that I can finish the tutorial.
>
> Since that tutorial covers runtime D-Bus configuration this is probably out of
> scope for it.
>
OK, so other than the general requirement that: "XDG_DATA_DIRS" needs to 
include all of the "share" directories, there is no specific requirement 
for this.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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