[Gambas-user] Cannot start gambas3-3.7.1 after compilation

[John Frankish]

>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just compiled gambas3-3.7.1 from source against qt-4.8.6 and 
>>>>> gtk-3.16.1, but when I try to start it, I get this:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ gambas3
>>>>> Stock.Themes_Read.698: #45: File or directory does not exist
>>>>> Project.Main.334
>>>>>
>>>>   The error is on a line that tries to browse the "/usr/share/icons"
>>>> directory. Don't you have such a directory on your system?
>>>>
>>> No, it's /usr/local/share/icons and gambas3 was compiled to
/usr/local...
>>>
>>> Do I need to go through the source to look for other hard links to /usr?
>>
>> I will fix the code to not crash if /usr/share/icons does not exist.
>> But why you should I look to /usr/local/share/icons? Is it a standard 
>> path for storing icons?
>> I mean: each time I look in /usr/a/b/c, I must look in 
>> /usr/local/a/b/c too?
>>
> I understand (I could well be mistaken) that /usr is for a distro's files
and /usr/local is for apps added afterwards.
> Since my distro, tinycorelinux, comes with the bare minimum, almost
everything is added and in /usr/local.
>
>This being said, if a configure script allows "--prefix=/usr/local", then
it would seem logical that it looks in $PREFIX/etc,
> $PREFIX/share and so on to find things, n'est pas?
>
>> Anyway, yes, you can browse everywhere and tell me if you see some hard
>>links to /usr.
>
>So far, I've found that gambas3 is stuck with finding
/usr/local/share/icons and /usr/local/share/mime
>
I finally finished and recompiled gambas3 and it seems to work.

The patch file is 40kb :-o

I did not attach the patch as I mostly just changed /usr/{bin, lib, sbin,
share} and /etc to /usr/local/{bin, lib, sbin, share} and /usr/local/etc
rather than incorporate $PREFIX or add /usr/local to path statements and so
on.