On 2011-11-10, Axel Scheepers <axel.scheep...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 01:38:52PM -0300, Gonzalo L. R. wrote:
>> You need to use ${PREFIX} instead of /usr/local
>
> Indeed, thank you. The matter of fact is the code for the
> other unix platforms use either procfs or sysctl for getting
> the full path, I thought it should do the same for OpenBSD.
> What would be best to do?
>
> For other bsd's there's a sysctl for getting the full path
> but I'm not sure if such a thing exists for openbsd.
> I looked at sysctl(3) and tried to get it with dlattr. Another
> way would be traversing the users path to find it.
I don't think this is possible to do accurately (the file could have
been renamed/removed/replaced after the process started) so AIUI we don't
allow it at all. Just hardcode the name/path which the package installs
it as, via PREFIX.
