Re: [Gnash-dev] Installation paths for plugins

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:53:02PM +0100, strk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:50:55PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:43:44PM +0100, strk wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:24:56PM +0100, Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> > > > I personally think that if you specify a prefix where an enabled plugin
> > > > cannot work, configure should abort and tell you to specify
> > > > --plugin-location-should-be=/some/other/path.
> > > 
> > > How do you know if it'll work or not ?
> > > Could be a chroot, you might use env variables at runtime, or
> > > symlink...
> > 
> > Or simply be doing a staged install for packaging.
> 
> Wouldn't DISTDIR handle the staged installs, btw ?

Indeed, DESTDIR handles the staged install, but depending on how
detection of a plugin that work is done, even staged install may not
work. Indeed, in a staged install the plugin isn't located at the right
place at the time of the install.

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Pat