QT_PLUGIN_PATH (Re: Install kimgio plugins in the Qt image format plugins dir)

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Friday 26 October 2007 18:07:04 David Faure escreveu:
> > > Tested here, works -- at least the env var appears in the
> > > /proc/pid/environ of the kde4 apps. Inside konsole it's not set since
> > > the shell gets its own environment, but that's not something we can do
> > > anything about I guess, shell people will still need to configure their
> > > shell.
> >
> > Attached patch makes QCA not install to Qt's path either.
>
> That's another topic - one that I have discussed with the QCA guys in
> private email. They also want QCA to work on its own, so my startkde patch
> doesn't fully fix the problem for them.
>
> Brad Hards said the plan was (partly paraphrased) :
[snip]

My take is:

- make it configurable via -D switch in the cmake command-line
- default to something inside ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
- print at the end of configure that you need to set QT_PLUGIN_PATH
- do not check Qt's plugin path, ever

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