On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:41:13 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 June 2010 16:23, Chow Loong Jin hyperair@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:53 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chow,
remembering that I'm AC_illiterate :) the problem seems to be that plugins configure where they install based on where geany's pkg-config says, ignoring what the --prefix option says.
The --prefix should override the standard location
Ah yes, there was that issue. My intention was for it to use Geany's prefix, simply because there really isn't a point in stuffing plugins where you don't have a Geany installation. e.g. Geany in /usr, but geany-plugins at /usr/local would cause some confusion. Hence, what was done was:
- autodetect Geany's ${pkglibdir} and install plugins in there.
Oh yes thats correct for system installed versions.
- Allow manual specification of Geany's prefix by
--with-geany-prefix=/some/other/path
Ahhh, I'd never heard of the --with-geany-prefix option, that would be why I didn't use it.
Come to think of it, I don't really remember why I wanted to use --with-geany-prefix separately from --prefix. Perhaps --with-geany-prefix's functionality should be shifted to --prefix instead. What do you think? That should fix all your issues.
Yes I think that would do it, thanks,
I guess I am expecting that if I configured a version of Geany with --prefix then plugins configured the same would link with the ABI and install in the directories of the Geany with the same --prefix.
For testing a plugin like Jiri's which needs a modified version of Geany to run, it needs to use the version of Geany with the patches in it, not the system install.
Actually I think it's now --with-geany-libdir, since ${libdir} is not necessarily /usr/lib on all platforms. But it's broken, since I forgot to change one instance of "geany-prefix" to "geany-libdir" in geany.m4. I'll fix it immediately, for the time being. I'll implement the changes I mentioned after 0.19 is out.