Hello! command: "which kdesu" returns "/usr/bin/kdesu" for my archlinux command "readlink -f /usr/bin/kdesu" returns "/usr/lib/kf5/kdesu" so maybe "readlink -f `which kdesu`" is what you are searching for?
2018-01-17 14:43 GMT+03:00 Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org>: > Moin > > I am currently trying to invoke kdesu from a script and having some > trouble wrapping my head around how to actually find it in the file > system. > > On neon (and all debians) we have it in > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu > > That is: libexec/kf5 inside the libdir of ECM (I think) > > Now how do I determine where that is without having to resort to > somehow fish that out of cmake (which requires development files to be > installed and that is usually not the case on production systems)? > > In kdelibs4 times we hade kde4-config which has a compat replacement > kf5-config in kdelibs4support, but that is deprecated in favor of > qtpaths. qtpaths deals with XDG_ paths, not build time paths, or > rather: the build time paths it supports are Qt's not > KF5's/kde-cli-tools so they are entirely irrelevant for kdesu. > > Should this bugger maybe be in bin/ rather than libexec/? > > HS >
