WPrefs binary path

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2018-08-19 Doug Torrance <dtorrance at piedmont.edu> wrote:
> On 08/18/2018 07:33 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> However "/usr/share/lib/" just looks wrong. I have browsed over
>> GNUstep packages
>> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-gnustep-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
>> and they seem to use a saner layout:
>>    arch-indep data: below /usr/share/GNUstep/
>>    arch-dep data: below /usr/lib/GNUstep/
>>    program binary: /usr/bin/

>> The wmaker build system does not support this layout (yet). So we have
>> two choices:

>> 1. Use abovementioned hotfix
>> 2. patch wmaker
>> 3. go upstream

>> Thoughts?

> I think going upstream is definitely the correct choice, at least in the
> long term -- the GNUstep directory stuff is very out of date.  I was puzzled
> by the whole "/usr/share/lib" thing when I noticed it while responding to
> the Ubuntu bug.  I got some advice from the GNUstep maintainers about what's
> usually done in [1], which looks to be what you've found as well.
> Correcting things upstream has been on my TODO list for a while, but I
> haven't gotten around to it yet...

> Of course you're absolutely right about no arch-dependent files in
> /usr/share.  I'm not sure why I didn't think about that!

> The problem right now appears to be that Window Maker throws all the WPrefs
> stuff under the directory indicated by the "--with-gnustepdir" configure
> option, regardless of whether it's arch-dependent or arch-independent.  So
> we'd need to separate that out.

Hello,

I have looked at this (and slept over it some more). Afaict the GNUstep
system
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/filesystem_7.html
does not really support separation of arch-indep/arch-dep data upstream.
This seems to happen downstream (dh_gnustep?). So on 2nd thought this
does not seem to be a wmaker upstream issue.

Also separating WPrefs into arch-indep/arch-dep is simple - main binary
versus the rest.

Therefore I propose the following:
#1 patch ./configure to install WPrefs to bindir (/usr/bin) even if
   --with-gnustepdir is set.
#2 build with GNUSTEPDIR := $(SHAREDIR)/GNUstep/System

What do you think?

cu Andreas

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