build: Run postinstall script where necessary

Package managers usually take care of compiling GSettings schemas and
updating the .desktop database on installation, but when building
manually from source, we should perform the aforementioned actions
ourselves.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/127

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4bc70274e670e289db8a3648553c77ea6b1ca618..a420e7963d243ecddd3e1b5e9106622cce4b79db 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -189,3 +189,5 @@ subdir('tests')
 if get_option('gtk_doc')
   subdir('docs/reference')
 endif
+
+meson.add_install_script('meson/meson-postinstall.sh')

diff --git a/meson/meson-postinstall.sh b/meson/meson-postinstall.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..4500dcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson/meson-postinstall.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Package managers set this so we don't need to run
+if [ -z "$DESTDIR" ]; then
+  echo Compiling GSettings schemas...
+  glib-compile-schemas ${MESON_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/glib-2.0/schemas
+
+  echo Updating desktop database...
+  update-desktop-database -q ${MESON_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/applications
+fi