Review Request 108889: Add QML_INSTALL_DIR variable to KDE pathes

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, February 11, 2013 17:03:55 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 10, 2013 14:33:49 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> On domingo, 10 de fevereiro de 2013 21.22.05, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> >> > Apparently not. I've looked at where the example imports from the Qt
> >> > codebase install these things, and that is indeed $PREFIX/qml, not
> >> > inside the plugin directory. This location is also where these imports
> >> > are being found automatically, i.e. without specifying additional
> >> > import pathes (which we have to do for Plasma in kdelibs 4).
> >>
> >> Technically, it's $ARCHDATADIR/qml. The Qt build makes ARCHDATADIR=PREFIX
> >> by  default.
> >>
> >> But everyone installing Qt to PREFIX=/usr should set it
> >> ARCHDATADIR=$LIBDIR/qt5.
> >
> > So that means that qtquick2 imports should go there, and that we should
> > advise people in our build instructions to build with
> > --archdatadir=$LIBDIR/qt5?
> >
> > Which would bring me to my next question: How do I find out the ARCHDATA
> > dir from a cmake script then? (Yes, noob question.)
> 
> It is not currently set by the cmake scripts because I did not know why 
> anyone would want it.
> 
> What do you need it for, exactly?

To find out where Qt will look for QtQuick2 imports (that's $ARCHDATADIR/qml, 
defaulting to $PREFIX/qml, which leads to /usr/qml). 

I'd like to be able to install Plasma QtQuick2 imports into a path where 
they'll actually be found, that's the QML_INSTALL_DIR which the patch from 
this thread adds.
-- 
sebas

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