PolKit and KDE4_AUTH_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 19.02.11 00:29:57, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> John Layt wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 18 February 2011 06:48:54 Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> >> >> 2) If path different from polkit-qt AUTH_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR then
> >> >> display an appropriate warning
> >> >> 3) Install to the requested location, it's then up to the dev to fix
> >> >> if needed by either moving the files or by building polkit-qt
> >> >> themselves.
> >> 
> >> All this can be achieved by setting KDE4_AUTH_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR to
> >> *relative* path, not absolute one.
> > 
> > Sorry, could you explain that a bit more?  Do you mean the build system
> > should, or that the dev should?
> It is sufficient to replace the line
> 
> set(POLKITQT-1_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR 
> "${POLKITQT-1_INSTALL_DIR}/share/polkit-1/actions")
> 
> by the line
> 
> set(POLKITQT-1_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR "share/polkit-1/actions")
> 
> in polkit-qt-1/PolkitQt-1Config.cmake.in. And, of course, adjust the 
> warning.

And how do I do that if my polkit-qt-1 comes from my distro, but I want
my KDE self-built? Thats what this is about, a kde module must not
install stuff outside of its own installation prefix. If that means
certain things might not work, warn the user and point him to
information how to fix that.

Andreas

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