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

[Thiago Macieira]

Brad Hards wrote:
>On Saturday 27 October 2007 02:51:41 am Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> - 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
>
>My concern is that this will cause breakage at run-time (when QCA can't
> find its plugins, it doesn't really do much), because people won't set
> the plugin path, or will change it to something else when they install
> kdelibs to a different prefix.

If they are installing to a prefix that isn't /usr, then they have to 
configure other environment variables anyways.

QT_PLUGIN_PATH shouldn't be any different. It won't matter if and only if 
the user is installing to the same prefix as Qt was installed.

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