problems with g2

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>:

>> Clearly, we've found something broken with the DESTDIR part.
>
> just to remind everyone of this: The gconf system does *not* work 
> with make install DESTDIR=something. I.e. the gconf system itself 
> claims the schemas files will not be installed correctly with 
> DESTDIR-install. Instead, the documentation on 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ , section "Application developer 
> information", explicitly states that with
> package building, the packagers are expected to "disable schema 
> installation during the "make install" phase" and "then in the 
> post-install script, run something" else. In other words, it's not 
> directly clear whether this problem should be fixed in gnucash or is 
> rather a conceptual problem of gconf. Already noted in 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330203

Well, we need to put the schema files SOMEWHERE during make install
or a packager can't post-install them, because they wouldn't exist
in the final package.

By "disable schema installation" I presume you mean, "disable installing
the schemas using gconf's schema-install mechanism", but we can still
copy them to some install-dir path on our own via a standard
automake install rule?

-derek

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