how to find kdesu?

[Alexey Andreyev]

Hello!

command: "which kdesu" returns "/usr/bin/kdesu" for my archlinux
command "readlink -f /usr/bin/kdesu" returns "/usr/lib/kf5/kdesu"
so maybe "readlink -f `which kdesu`" is what you are searching for?



2018-01-17 14:43 GMT+03:00 Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org>:

> Moin
>
> I am currently trying to invoke kdesu from a script and having some
> trouble wrapping my head around how to actually find it in the file
> system.
>
> On neon (and all debians) we have it in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu
>
> That is: libexec/kf5 inside the libdir of ECM (I think)
>
> Now how do I determine where that is without having to resort to
> somehow fish that out of cmake (which requires development files to be
> installed and that is usually not the case on production systems)?
>
> In kdelibs4 times we hade kde4-config which has a compat replacement
> kf5-config in kdelibs4support, but that is deprecated in favor of
> qtpaths. qtpaths deals with XDG_ paths, not build time paths, or
> rather: the build time paths it supports are Qt's not
> KF5's/kde-cli-tools so they are entirely irrelevant for kdesu.
>
> Should this bugger maybe be in bin/ rather than libexec/?
>
> HS
>
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