[Gnash-commit] [bug #33045] gnash-{gtk, qt}-launcher look in wrong place for gnash-splash.swf if --datadir is passed to configure

[Andrew Guertin]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33045>

                 Summary: gnash-{gtk,qt}-launcher look in wrong place for
gnash-splash.swf if --datadir is passed to configure
                 Project: Gnash - The GNU Flash player
            Submitted by: dolphinling
            Submitted on: Mon 11 Apr 2011 04:18:34 AM EDT
                Category: build
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                 Release: trunk
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

If the --datadir or --datarootdir configure options are set to non-default
values, gnash-gtk-launcher and gnash-qt-launcher will look for
gnash-splash.swf in the wrong place.

The solution is not quite as simple as it might seem: you cannot simply change
"@prefix@/share" to "@datadir@" in gnash-*-launcher.in because "@datadir@"
expands to "${prefix}/share", and "${prefix}" isn't defined in the output
file.

The autoconf manual
(http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Installation-Directory-Variables)
explains that this is necessary to allow the prefix to be set at make time to
a different value than was set at configure time.

The manual also provides a few make rules to properly deal with this. It also
points out the existence of @pkgdatadir@ from automake, which should be used
as well.




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