After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 156785 - Pango installs platform-specific data in $PREFIX/etc
Pango installs platform-specific data in $PREFIX/etc
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129534
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
1.4.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-29 08:57 UTC by Hans Meine
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Hans Meine 2004-10-29 08:57:11 UTC 
I installed pango-1.4.1 on both Solaris and Linux, with 
--prefix=/software/pango-1.4.1 
--prefix=/software/pango-1.4.1/{SunOS-5.8,SuSE-9.0} respectively. 
 
Both separate builds installed platform-specific plugin-paths 
in /software/pango-1.4.1/etc AFAICS; since the Solaris "make install" happened 
after the Linux one, I could not run gtk-demo under Linux anymore, because it 
tried to load plugins from /software/pango-1.4.1/SunOS-5.8 and complained 
about wrong ELF formats. 
 
I solved the problem by giving --sysconfdir=$EXEC_PREFIX/etc to configure, 
which seems to me to be a valid fix. (Another possibility would be to separate 
plugin-specific information from sysconfdir-data and install it under 
$lib_dir/plugins or sth. like that.) 
 
BTW: I will file this very bugreport twice, since the same thing happens in 
gtk..
Comment 1 Hans Meine 2004-10-29 09:09:08 UTC 
See bug #156786, that's the one for GTK+. 
 
For clarification of "seems to me to be a valid fix": I meant that sysconfdir 
should default to $(exec_prefix)/etc, as long as platform-specific stuff is 
installed in it.
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2004-11-21 16:41:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129534 ***