[Geany-devel] Broken plugin autofools (Was: [ANNOUNCE] gproject - yet another geany project plugin)

[Jiří Techet]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:21, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:29:26 +0200
> Jiří Techet <techet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:23, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:53 +1000
>> > Lex Trotman <elextr at 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:
>> >
>> > 1. autodetect Geany's ${pkglibdir} and install plugins in there.
>> > 2. Allow manual specification of Geany's prefix by
>> > --with-geany-prefix=/some/other/path
>> >
>> > Come to think of it, I don't really remember why I wanted to use
>> > --with-geany-prefix separately from --prefix. Perhaps
>> > --with-geany-prefix's functionality should be shifted to --prefix
>> > instead. What do you think? That should fix all your issues.
>>
>> You can have a look what I do in gproject:
>>
>> http://gitorious.org/gproject/mainline/blobs/master/configure.ac
>> http://gitorious.org/gproject/mainline/blobs/master/src/Makefile.am
>>
>> I would say it's sufficient this way, or do you see some problem
>> there?
>
> You also need to export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${libdir}/geany prior to
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES, so that you get the correct GEANY_CFLAGS and
> GEANY_LIBS (otherwise it'll take the system-wide one for compiling).

True, thanks for the hint.

Jiri