[maemo-developers] why do my .service and .desktop files end up in the root directory?

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Apologies, I was typing from my bedside in the morning; clearly, I
hadn't woken up. ;)

I'm used to seeing things like
servicedir = $(DIR) in Makefile.am but you did that in configure.ac.

Best Regards,
Faheem

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Frank Banul <frank.banul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Um, I don't follow this suggestion. I have in my data/Makefile.am:
>
> serviceentry_DATA = com.kjainvestments.tabletbridge.service
>
> desktopentry_DATA = tabletbridge.desktop
>
> icon_26x26_DATA = icons/26x26/tabletbridge.png
> icon_40x40_DATA = icons/40x40/tabletbridge.png
> icon_scalable_DATA = icons/scalable/tabletbridge.png
> icons/scalable/tabletbridge-wait.png
>
> EXTRA_DIST = $(serviceentry_DATA) $(desktopentry_DATA)
> $(icon_26x26_DATA) $(icon_40x40_DATA) $(icon_scalable_DATA)
>
> I looked at other data/Makefile.am files and they are the same. What
> am I missing?
>
> thanks,
> Frank
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Faheem Pervez <trippin1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, and now that I'm looking at it a bit better, telling
>> data/Makefile.am to actually use $serviceentry et al. may help.
>>
>> On 1/6/10, Faheem Pervez <trippin1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ed Bartosh looked into this for another person last time and his
>>> solution applies here, too: Add osso-af-settings to Build-Depends.
>>>
>>> -Faheem
>>>
>>> On 1/6/10, Frank Banul <frank.banul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Can any one give me any hints (or answers) on why my .service and
>>>> .desktop files end up in the their proper locations and in the root
>>>> directory of the device? I've been staring at the scripts but really
>>>> don't see where I've gone wrong. I've also examined other source
>>>> packages.
>>>>
>>>> The source is
>>>> http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle/free/source/t/tabletbridge/tabletbridge_0.2.4.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance. The user's root directory appreciate your help. ;)
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Frank
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>>
>