From 8344b5875279c0b4b829f077ecab6fc5f005e7b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Orlitzky Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 12:10:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] configure.ac: hack around "make distcheck" failure. --- configure.ac | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index d2e4f93..0e6978d 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -12,7 +12,17 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GTK4], [gtk4]) PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBSVGTINY], [libsvgtiny]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([for gdk-pixbuf module location]) -gdk_pixbuf_moduledir=$($PKG_CONFIG --variable gdk_pixbuf_moduledir gdk-pixbuf-2.0) +# Hack alert: we need to install our module into this specific +# location... BUT, we also want to respect --prefix, at least to the +# extent that we won't try to install something to, say, /usr when +# we've passed --prefix=/tmp. This little libdir trick prevents +# pkg-config from substituting for ${libdir} where it appears in the +# *.pc file. When we go to actually use gdk_pixbuf_moduledir, the +# variable ${libdir} will be valid in our own build system, and will +# respect the prefix. This means that if you configure this package +# with a different prefix than gdk-pixbuf was, it won't install +# correctly. But hey, make distcheck works? +gdk_pixbuf_moduledir=$($PKG_CONFIG --define-variable=libdir="\${libdir}" --variable gdk_pixbuf_moduledir gdk-pixbuf-2.0) AC_MSG_RESULT([$gdk_pixbuf_moduledir]) AC_SUBST([gdk_pixbuf_moduledir]) -- 2.44.2