Review Request 117016: Allow overriding DrKonqi lookup directories by PATH

[Dan Vrátil]

> On March 24, 2014, 4:41 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > The correct solution is to get drkonqi merged into kcrash (see http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics/New_Runtime_Organization).
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Agreed. If somebody has the time, it would be interesting to figure out what can be uncommented (see commit f8b59b6c in kde-runtime). There's many things commented out and I'm unsure what to do with it.

I agree, however until it is done, this patch would make lifes of distribution packagers a bit easier :-)


- Dan


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On March 24, 2014, 1:01 p.m., Dan Vrátil wrote:
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> (Updated March 24, 2014, 1:01 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcrash
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> Description
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> Since KCrash is a framework that relies on DrKonqi binary being provided by a 3rd party software (kde-runtime), it should not make assumptions regarding location of the utility.
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> This patch makes KCrash to look for drkonqi binary first in $PATH, then falling back to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR. With this patch it's possible for distributions to ship KDE Frameworks in normal prefix (/usr), but have current snapshots of kde-runtime in /opt/kde5 for instance.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kcrash.cpp 87163cc 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117016/diff/
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> Testing
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> - Installed KCrash into /usr prefix
> - Installed drkonqi from kde-runtime master to /opt/kde5 prefix
> - started broken application
> - no "could not find drkonqi" warning anymore
> - crashed application, got drkonqi window
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> Thanks,
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> Dan Vrátil
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