[gs-devel] Re: cups filter install locations

[Till Kamppeter]

Ralph Giles wrote:
> Till,
> 
> What's the purpose of the $(install_prefix) variable prefixed to the 
> cups-config paths in the install target of cups.mak? As far as I can 
> tell these aren't set by any higher level makefile.

I think it was something like DESTDIR as these Makefile rules were still 
somewhere in the CUPS Makefiles. Now it should be replaced to whatever 
variable is used for this purpose in GPL Ghostscript (or removed if such 
a variable does not exist).

> 
> Previously adjusting ${prefix} was sufficient to do an install as an 
> unprivileged user. As written the 'install-cups' target breaks this. 
> Shouldn't these go in ${datadir} or something by default, overriden by 
> the packaging script for a system install?
> 

The filters usually go into /usr/lib/cups/model and the MIME rules into 
/etc/cups (or whatever is auto-detected by cups-config.

    Till