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

[<tim...@en...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday 17 June 2006 03:19 pm, you wrote:
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>> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
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>>> I'm having my own battle with 'make distcheck', with regard to the
>>> recently added X-Resources file.
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>> By the way, as for this file, why not installing it to a standard=20
>> directory relatively to gnuplot (PREFIX/share/gnuplot/apps-defaults ?)=
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> The standard directory is dictated by X11 itself.
> We don't get a choice in the matter.
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I understand that.
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>> and let 'xrdb' add it to the database ? (or maybe not installing it at=
 all)
>>    install-data-local:
>>        xrdb $(pkgdatadir)Gnuplot.app-defaults
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> That would do nothing useful.
> xrdb must be run every time a user starts an X session.
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Ok, I did not know that.

I guess it will be hard to do something that will work everytime with=20
this file.
I propose the following (assuming that /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults is the=20
default directory for this kind of stuff - I don't have such directory=20
on my machine, everything is in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults instead,=20
which makes more sense to me) :

xresourcedir =3D $(libdir)/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot
xresource_DATA =3D Gnuplot.app-defaults

If 'configure' is called with '--prefix=3D/usr' it will work, otherwise=20
the file will still be installed but probably not used by X. That=20
doesn't seem worse to me than the current situation which only works=20
when root installs. And it would work with 'make distcheck'.

(to install in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults instead, the first line would=20
be :
xresourcedir =3D $(datadir)/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot
)

Timoth=E9e