0.5.3:bogus path of pixmaps

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From: Marcus Brinkmann (Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Date: Tue Sep 28 1999 - 19:32:36 EDT

Hello,

PACKAGE_PIXMAPS_DIR="`$gnomepath --datadir`/pixmaps/${PACKAGE}"
AC_SUBST(PACKAGE_PIXMAPS_DIR)

The above code does not play along nicely with the rest of the setup.
Autoconf is designed to make it possible to change the installation path of
all components by simply setting prefix to a different root path.

the prefix setting at configure time determines which pathes are hardcoded
into the binaries (if any).

A different prefix at "make install" makes it possible to install the files
into a different root directory.

Those don't need to be the same, as I can install for example on a mounted
partition (make install prefix=/mnt), or in a subdirectory to make a tar
file of glade (or a Debian package, FWIW).

The above code defeats both purposes. Please coordinate with the Gnome
project how you want to treat this deficiency. Until then, one can work
around it by setting the PACKAGE_PIXMAPS_DIR at the make install command
line.

Thanks,
Marcus 

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