Setting paths which depend on CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

Oswald Buddenhagen ossi at kde.org
Sat Jun 6 11:15:11 CEST 2009


On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:59:40AM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >that's a sign that the plugin system needs to be fixed, not that
> >the build system should be screwed up to compensate for it.
> >specifically, installing kde to another prefix than qt and still having
> >qt see kde plugins works just fine. copying that behavior sounds like a
> >fairly obvious and not particularly hard to implement feature.
> 
> The problem is when you ask an external process for information, like the 
> database generated by kbuildsycoca4.
> 
i don't understand what you mean ... qt stores the kde plugin paths in
its config file, so things just work after initial auto-registration by
kdelibs. to make it even more deterministic, one could make the
registration step explicit at make install time.


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