[csw-maintainers] update-mime-database said: Note that '/opt/csw/share' is not in the search path

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Tue Mar 9 18:12:17 CET 2010


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Tue Mar 09 11:43:34 -0500 2010:
>
>> Hardcoded in update-mime-database.c.
>>                 env = "/usr/local/share/"PATH_SEPARATOR"/usr/share/";
>
> If the project is using autoconf, this could be quickly patched to use
> $(datadir):/usr/local/share...I'd patch that for you if you don't like
> mucking with autoconf.
>

well, however it happens,  we should patch update-mime-database to not
look under /usr/local - that's just a bad idea all 'round.


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