On 13/10/2021 13:17, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
If it helps you in any way, we now (i.e. in 2.5.27.1 in git since commit
94d9912e from 2021-10-12) a way to build libgphoto2 and libgphoto2_port
such that the default location it looks for camlibs and iolibs can be
set at configure time:
configure \
camlibdir=/where/to/install/the/camlibs \
DEFAULT_CAMLIBS=/where/to/find/the/camlibs \
iolibdir=/where/to/install/the/iolibs \
DEFAULT_IOLIBS=/where/to/find/the/iolibs
The defaults should be sane:
* If camlibdir= is not set at configure time, use a default location
based on ${libdir} to find out where to install the camlibs.
* If DEFAULT_CAMLIBS is not set at configure time, use the value of
${camlibdir} to find out where to look for the camlibs.
* Analogous behaviour for iolibs.
I think I tried one of those earlier, but discovered it has to be an
absolute path. The Python interface can legitimately be installed in one
of several different places, so a relative path is needed.
What we do not have at this time is a way to change the driver lookup
location at runtime with an API function call. That has been proposed
in https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/pull/534 but I have
not thought much about it so far. I certainly do not want to hurry
changes to the public API and ABI as those tend to stick for a long
time.
I agree with you. I've got a working solution now so I'm happy if there
are no further changes.
--
Jim Easterbrook <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>
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