Wrong install PATHs

[Thanatermesis]

This is a minor bug report, something changed since the version 20230318 (commit d557d5e7 #d557d5e7 ) where some files are installed in a different / strange path, I fixed it manually in my package build but I think should be fixed on upstream, these are the details of my overwritten locations:

/usr/local/share/applications   /usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/icons          /usr/share/icons
/usr/share/eflete/AUTHORS       /usr/share/doc/eflete/AUTHORS

[dimmus]

It seems okay. Your system build tool prefix is /usr. Mine is /usr/local (check the readme file). What errors did you get? I will check the work of dir_prefix in meson.

Is the last one working? Check out the About page. Eflete uses AUTHORS to populate About page.

[Thanatermesis]

Is not an error, everything installs correctly, they are just installed in a wrong directory so as the previous example I just moved manually the files in the package to be in the correct location, yes the prefix is /usr here in the package and so I think that is important because applications and icons should be then in the /usr (not in /usr/local), again its not a problem for me but I wanted to report it because maybe the prefix is wrongly read on the makefiles or something similar?

[dimmus]

For me: /usr/bin : contains executable programs that are part of the operating system and installed by its package manager /usr/local/bin : default location for executable programs not part of the operating system and installed there by the local administrator, usually after building them from source

The same for applications, icons, etc

[Thanatermesis]

Sorry I didn't see the last comment.

Yes exactly, for me too. The problem is that eflete is built using --prefix=/usr , that's why I said they are put in the wrong place (/usr/local/)

I think you can try this easily with something like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
mkdir tmpinstalldir
make DESTDIR=tmpinstalldir install
tree tmpinstalldir

probably with the previous step, you can see inside the dir "tmpinstalldir" everything installed in a /usr structure, but some files are put on tmpinstalldir/usr/local. Probably if you do --prefix=/opt they are put on tmpinstalldir/usr/local too 🤔

[dimmus]

Ok, I get it. You say, that Eflete doesn't follow a prefix. I definitely should check this out. Thanks.

[dimmus]

Found hardcoded paths. Solved in 411dc54a50572270d0acdc194c28f3c0587e07c0. Thanks