Re: 'make distcheck' has problems with the wxt files

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 03:19 pm, you wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> > I'm having my own battle with 'make distcheck', with regard to the
> > recently added X-Resources file.
> By the way, as for this file, why not installing it to a standard 
> directory relatively to gnuplot (PREFIX/share/gnuplot/apps-defaults ?), 

The standard directory is dictated by X11 itself.
We don't get a choice in the matter.

> and let 'xrdb' add it to the database ? (or maybe not installing it at all)
>    install-data-local:
>        xrdb $(pkgdatadir)Gnuplot.app-defaults

That would do nothing useful.
xrdb must be run every time a user starts an X session.
There is no persistence across users or across sessions.

	Ethan

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742