[kmymoney] [Bug 471061] Installation for /usr/local installs plugins into incorrect path

[Jack]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471061

--- Comment #3 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
If someone wants to build and install kmymoney in lieu of a distro-supplied
version, I'm pretty sure it "just works."  It's only if you modify any defaults
that issues arise.  It might be reasonable to think that if you modify the
build from the defaults, then you know what you are doing.  If you do alter the
install prefix, then it might be specifically because you want it out of the
way of standard system installed stuff.  Remember that much of where programs
look for libraries already depends on environment variables, and is not fully
built in to the executable, so it is not currently feasibly to adjust where a
program looks for libraries and plugins.  

Also, none of that is specific to KMyMoney (as far as I know.)  I believe it
all comes along for using the Qt/KDE/CMake environment and  build system.  I'm
not even sure where such a wishlist would properly be directed.

In your case, it might be reasonable to create a script to source prefix.sh and
then call the new kmymoney.  That is essentially how it is possible to have
more than one version of the program installed at the same time, without them
stepping all over each other.

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