Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-06 Thread Kevin Turner
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:59:50PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > I'm using gimp 1.1.24. I'd like to write a RPM spec file for a plugin. In > RPM it is very much desirable to have the install not go to the "real" > directory, but to prefix the install dir with some other dir. > > Can

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-02 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:22:45AM -0400, Robert L Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that gimptool should know anything about specific > plugins. At the very least I want agreement on conventions about what > goes where. I'd say gimp itself lacks these, indeed. Here is a propos

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-02 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:43:30 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:56:35AM -0400, Robert L Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hope to release in a few months), we'll probably want to ship printer > definitions, color profiles, possibly dither

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-02 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:56:35AM -0400, Robert L Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > be a way to install (and deinstall) auxiliary files. We (gimp-print) > don't have any as of yet, but that's largely because we have no handy > way of installing them. What support are you missing? I'd think t

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-02 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:56:55 +0100 (BST) From: Austin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some work needs to be done on gimptool before 1.2 can release. In particular, we need to be able to use it to automate the building of DLL modules without using a gimp build tree. As long as we'r

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:08:18AM +0200, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ? Did I miss something? Why is it such a bad thing that programs should be > installable in a user specified place? And why is RPM broken because of What you miss is that it's not "installing in a user-speci

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:26:00AM +0200, "\"Jürgen A. Erhard\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > automake-using apps per default, usually) can do it. It's just Perl > that doesn't seem to be able to honor that (according to older posts > from you Marc), which is a shame (for Perl). Perl can do it v

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread "Jürgen A. Erhard"
> "Marc" == Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:59:50PM +0200, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> RPM it is very much desirable to have the install not go to the "real" >> directory, but to prefix the install dir with some other di

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 1 Aug 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Can I somehow use gimptool to do this? I thought about something like > "gimptool --prefix ~/tmp/prefix-dir --install-admin-bin pluginfile", and > then gimptool should install "pluginfile" to > "``~/tmp/prefix-dir''/usr/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/", (w

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:31:42PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > Why is that every program has to be "fixed" to be usable with rpm, and > everbody even agrees with that, instead of just fixing rpm??? > ? Did I miss something? Why is it such a bad thing that programs should be installable in a

Re: gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:59:50PM +0200, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RPM it is very much desirable to have the install not go to the "real" > directory, but to prefix the install dir with some other dir. Why is that every program has to be "fixed" to be usable with rpm, and ev

gimptool using --prefix for install?

2000-08-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! I'm using gimp 1.1.24. I'd like to write a RPM spec file for a plugin. In RPM it is very much desirable to have the install not go to the "real" directory, but to prefix the install dir with some other dir. Can I somehow use gimptool to do this? I thought about something like "gimptool