bin/kdesu does not come from us, I guess it's one of those distro symlink Andreas was talking about https://build.kde.org/job/Plasma%20kde-cli-tools%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/12/console
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Alexey Andreyev <yetanotherandre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
