I am happy with the enable switch but I would like to ask which patch from cvs I need to apply against 1.9.10 or are you planning on releasing a new version to fix those small issues?

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > One possibility would be an "enable" switch: >> >> --enable-xdg-utils Use xdg-utils for installing XDG files >> >> which could either default to "no" or perhaps to "auto", based on whether >> or not xdg-desktop-menu is found. In the latter case a packager whose >> machine has xdg-utils installed would have to do --disable-xdg-utils. >> > > I'm willing to entertain other ideas, but for the moment I've put the > above into CVS, with a default of auto. So: > > * If you're happy to have the xdg-utils install the gretl desktop files, > you don't have to do anything. > > * If you don't have the xdg-utils, gretl will default to straight > installation via the shell, based on the chosen installation prefix; this > will respect DESTDIR. > > * If you have xdg-utils but you don't want them used, e.g. because you're > packaging into a DESTDIR, use the flag --disable-xdg-utils with configure; > then a standard shell-type install will be used. > > * Finally, if you don't want the XDG files installed at all, > you can use the flag --disable-xdg.