Re: Desktop file and exec path

[Andreas Schwab]

Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden> writes:

> Although two ways of solving this issue have been proposed already, there is
> also another way out: using an AC_CONFIG_FILES.
>
> glpegsolitaire.desktop.in
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Peg Solitaire
> Comment=A "Peg Solitaire" for Gnome
> address@hidden@
> Icon=glpegsolitaire.png
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Categories=GNOME;Game;BoardGame
> StartupNotify=true
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In your configure.ac:
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([path/to/glpegsolitaire.desktop])

Such substitutions only work correctly in makefiles, since they can expand
to references to other substituted variables that are supposed to be
recursively expanded as done by make.

Andreas.

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