[KDE/Mac] BUNDLE_INSTALL_DIR

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Mike Arthur wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2010, at 19:54, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Mike Arthur wrote:
> >> Is there any good reason for this to be set to /Applications/KDE4? It
> >> seems pretty unintuitive to violate the requested CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
> >> and install just the bundles here?
> >
> > Isn't /Applications the place where application bundles on OSX typically
> > go ? Having the app bundles in /usr/local/ would be kind of strange.
> > What would you suggest ?
>
> The problem is that applications on OSX are normally completely
> self-contained in their bundle. So either I'd say everything has to be
> self-contained in the bundles or everything should go in the prefix. It's a
> pretty weird system at the moment that most of it goes in the install
> prefix except for a few bundles. It also means unless the prefix is
> somewhere in the PATH, chances are the bundles won't even work (this has
> been my experience).

Can you please explain ? What is not found ?
Do you have an idea how to do it properly ?
When I installed KDE4 on a Macbook, it was working quite ok, I was using e.g. 
kate all the time, which is installed as a bundle.

> Ideally we should get the OSX version so it has self-contained bundles
> which have been properly "fixed-up" but at the moment the number of runtime
> dependencies make this pretty hardcore at the moment. Hopefully some of the

Feel free to make it work properly on OSX, I'd be happy about that :-)

Alex