On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:42:21PM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Akim Demaille wrote:
> >
> > >>> "Nicholas" == Nicholas R Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I recently decided to try to apply the suggestion mentioned in section 17.5 of
> > > the autoconf manual - namely, to hardcode only the relative path from prefix to
> > > datadir (or maybe from bindir to datadir) and try to determine prefix at
> > > runtime. However, I'm not sure how to determine prefix at runtime. Can anyone
> > > give me an example of how they did it? Thanks.
> >
> > Bruno Haible has a complete solution IIRC. See GNU Gettext.
>
> Hi Akim!
>
> That, unfortunately, is too convoluted to figure out without real study.
> Without a clear example, I simply find the full, real path of the executable
> and presume that the standard ../share/${program}/ is correct. Probably
> an illuminating example would make life easier..... :-)
If a GPL'd solution is OK, I recommend libiberty. I moved GCC's
make_relative_prefix into libiberty some time ago because I kept
needing this functionality elsewhere.
You give it argv[0], BINDIR, and OTHERDIR; it computes the relative
path between bindir and otherdir, finds your application in $PATH or
similar, and works out the likely location of otherdir.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
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