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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [kopete-devel] How to prevent installation of custom widgets
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-03-04 22:43:30
Message-ID: 200603041643.30270.mattr () kde ! org
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On Saturday 04 March 2006 11:00, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I have been tracking the 0.12 branch without any larger problems for a
> while now. But a recent commit is giving me a bit of a headache and I'm
> wondering if anyone has an idea what I could do about this.
>
> My routine is:
>
> svn up
> ./configure --prefix=~/Kopete [a bunch of other arguments]
> cp /usr/local/bin/libtool .
> cd kopete
> gmake
> gmake install
>
> The problem now is that since the <customwidgets> tags have been added
> to Kopete's .ui files, make builds and libtool insists on installing a
> libkopetewidgets.so file into kde_widgetdir, which configure sets to:
>
> /usr/local/lib/kde3/plugins/designer
>
> Of course, as a normal user, I have no permissions to write to that
> directory. And I don't want to write there either. I am definitely not
> planning on using Qt designer.
>
> After reading through configure, configure.in and lots of Google search
> results I still can't figure out how to change this behavior. So, my
> question is whether anybody has found a way to point kde_widgetdir to a
> different directory and/or disable the installation of the custom widget
> library?
>
> Right now I am just editing the relevant Makefile and .la archive. I
> could automate this with sed, but it would still be a horrible hack.
> There must be a better way...
>
> - Bartosz

Qt Designed plugins have to go to a seperate place. Why libkopetewidgets.so 
has suddenly started being installed is beyond me, although the best place to 
look would be the libkopete/ui/Makefile.am

--
Matt
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