Hi all,
I was wondering if there exists a kindof standard way to obtain final
installation directory information within code being compiled when using
autotools?
E.g.
I have a program that requires a configuration file that will usually go
into the ${prefix}/etc as given by $sysconfdir. So t
Brendon Costa wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there exists a kindof standard way to obtain final
installation directory information within code being compiled when
using autotools?
E.g.
I have a program that requires a configuration file that will usually
go into the ${prefix}/etc as giv
Brendon Costa wrote:
> I have a program that requires a configuration file that will usually go
> into the ${prefix}/etc as given by $sysconfdir. So this program needs to
> know where it is going to find this installed configuration file. I was
> initially going to export the evaluated value of $s
Brian Dessent wrote:
Instead of using an absolute path, you can use a relative path, which
makes the binary relocatable. For Win32, this means you can avoid
completely the hassle of converting between native and posix-emulated
(aka MSYS/Cygwin) paths. It also means the user can install your
pa
Brendon Costa wrote:
> However all these methods of obtaining the directory information seems
> to fall down for libraries.
Huh? Did you read the same email by Bruce Haible that I did? Because
it doesn't fall down at all. On Win32 GetModuleFilename works just fine
to tell you the DLL name, and
Brian Dessent wrote:
Brendon Costa wrote:
However all these methods of obtaining the directory information seems
to fall down for libraries.
Huh? Did you read the same email by Bruce Haible that I did? Because
it doesn't fall down at all. On Win32 GetModuleFilename works just fine
