Setting paths which depend on CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

[David Jarvie]

On Friday 5 June 2009 9:20, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 05 June 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> However I don't think defaulting to the kde install prefix is a good
>> idea
>
> I disagree. Back in the kde3 days I made the autoconf stuff do exactly
> that.
> "checking where to install... /d/kde/inst/kde3 (as returned by kde-config)
> "
>
> This is because otherwise your KDE app won't even start, if it uses
> parts or plugins. You need to set $KDEDIRS somewhere that kde startup
> will read, and rerun kbuildsycoca4, when you use another prefix than
> your KDE install prefix. So in general it's much easier to install every
> kde app into the KDE install prefix.

That's what I had in mind when choosing the KDE install dir as the default.

> But of course if it should be done, then this shouldn't be done by kalarm
> alone but rather by FindKDE4Internal.cmake for all kde apps.

Should FindKDE4Internal.cmake be changed (for KDE 4.4) to set the default
value of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to be the KDE installation directory?

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm