Re: [Notion-devel] F12 on OpenIndiana

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:57:45AM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > Is this an improvement? Shouldn't self-compiled apps go into /usr/local ?
> 
> Remember, I'm making an official package for OI. :)  I think that /usr/local
> is a good default to have.

Right, yes, of course :)

> > > assorted Makefiles:
> > > 
> > > 	* use $(DESTDIR) to allow for installing into an arbitrary dir
> > > 	  without messing up the prefix
> > 
> > This is a non-Solaris-specific improvement, right?
> 
> Yes, that's right.  It let's you do:
> 
> $ make install DESTDIR=$HOME/protodir
> 
> and end up with $HOME/protodir/usr/bin/notion which believes that it is in
> /usr/bin/notion.  A lot of package building software uses DESTDIR.  Here's
> the diff:
> 
> http://31bits.net/fix-install.patch

Seems reasonable enough, applied, thanks.

> > I updated https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notion/index.php?title=Solaris#Building
> > does that appear correct and complete?
> 
> Yeah, the build instructions seem fine.  

OK

> The "Setting Notion as the default
> window manager" is (probably) fine for Solaris 10 and older.  OpenSolaris,
> OpenIndiana, and Solaris 11 use gdm & gnome by default.  As far as I know,
> gdm ignores .dtprofile.  To add a gdm entry, you want to make this file:
> 
> $ cat /usr/share/xsessions/notion.desktop 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=notion
> Comment=This session logs you into Notion
> Exec=notion
> TryExec=notion
> Icon=
> Type=Application

Thanks, added 

> As I mentioned in my previous email, I still need to get notion running with
> my environment (I like my custom $PATH) - but that's not Notion related.

Good. Once you figure this out, we'd of course be glad to mention it in the 
docs :)

> All in all, I'm happy with Notion :)  Is a release imminent?

I think we're getting really close now.


Kind regards,

Arnout