Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash configure.ac ChangeLog macros/kde.m4

[strk]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:01:07AM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> strk wrote:
> 
> > The rationale for a separate install rule is we're not respecting
> > the --prefix. I think we should only automatically install the
> > plugins if they'll be installed under what was specified with --prefix
> > by default.
> 
>   But kde doesn't really follow the prefix. It has a limited range of
> search paths (kde-config --path config), so you want to ignore $prefix,
> just like we do for the Mozilla plugin. So even if you install
> Gnash/Klash in /usr/local, you don't want to use that for installing
> either plugins, as then the plugins don't work.

As someone pointed out, you may want to use symlinks to the actual
"enabling" of plugins.
It's nice to have --prefix respected always.
But yes, it's also nice that install installs... I've no idea how
to deal with this. I hope someone on -dev or -users will come out
with an acceptable solution.

--strk;