Hi,
I don't really know anything about what you are doing... but!
$ == end of line
so
echo $path | sed 's/\/$//'
should do what you want :)
Nick
PS You reply to address is a bit messed up.... should it really have
netscape.com on the end?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2002 3:51
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dan
> Mosedale
> Subject: Re: Configuring ./configure to locate mozilla installation
>
>
> Thanks Dan,
>
> I went and wrote some stuff to do what I want for now and have attached
> it below. To use it, attach it to the end of your aclocal.m4 and call
> AQ_CHECK_MOZILLA() from your configure.in. The following (probably
> dangerous and/or foolish) assumptions are made:
>
> 1) The default location for libgtkmozembed.so is /usr/local/mozilla.
> This can be over-ridden with the --with-mozilla-dir=DIR configure option.
>
> 2) The default location for gtkmozembed.h is the current directory. This
> can be over-ridden with the --with-mozilla-incl-dir=DIR configure
> switch. This implies that people who are distributing source code will
> need to include gtkmozembed.h, begging the question of whether this is a
> platform independent chunk of code.
>
> 3) The directories the user provides with the --with switches are not
> "trailing slash safe". IOW, if the user types /usr/lib/mozilla/ instead
> of /usr/lib/mozilla it won't work. [Hangs head in shame at his lack of
> sed know-how]
>
> 4) C++ is the language used -- I couldn't immediately muddle out how to
> check the AC_PROG_* language selection so just put a comment in below
> where you need to change CXXFLAGS to CFLAGS if you are of the AC_PROG_CC
> persuasion.
>
> 5) I've only tried this on Linux. When I get some free time I'll try it
> on the Sourceforge build farm on some other platforms.
>
> Cheers,
> D
>
> dnl *********************** append to aclocal.m4 ****
> dnl
> dnl AQ_CHECK_MOZILLA()
> dnl Sets up LIBS and C[XX]FLAGS for you
> dnl Dominic Tracey
> dnl
> Aquilon Technology Systems, Inc.
> dnl
> 1/23/02
> dnl
> AC_DEFUN(AQ_CHECK_MOZILLA, [
>
> AC_MSG_CHECKING("Mozilla lib dir")
> mozilla_lib_dir="/usr/local/mozilla"
> AC_ARG_WITH(mozilla-dir, [--with-mozilla-dir=DIR specify where
> mozilla is installed],
> mozilla_lib_dir="$withval")
> AC_MSG_RESULT($mozilla_lib_dir)
>
> dnl check for mozilla lib
> dnl assuming no trailing backslash on the provided directory! Should trim!
> dnl cannot muster sed technology...
> moz_lib_file="/libgtkembedmoz.so"
> moz_lib=$mozilla_lib_dir$moz_lib_file
>
> if test ! -e $moz_lib; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([Couldn't find the Mozilla installation. If
> you don't have mozilla installed, please download it from
> http://mozilla.org before continuing with this installation.
> If you have Mozilla installed, try telling configure
> the directory where it can be found with:
>
> ./configure --with-mozilla-dir=DIR
>
> replacing DIR with the Mozilla installation directory.
> See the file 'config.log' for further diagnostics.])
> fi
>
> LIBS="$LIBS -L$mozilla_lib_dir"
>
> dnl now the include file -- assume its distributed with the program
> dnl being installed (though allow an over-ride if someone wants to
> dnl use the version in a source tree). Not sure how platform independent
> dnl gtkmozembed.h is.
>
> AC_MSG_CHECKING("Mozilla include dir")
> mozilla_incl_dir="."
> AC_ARG_WITH(mozilla-incl-dir, [--with-mozilla-incl-dir=DIR
> specify where mozilla header file gtkembed.h is],
> mozilla_incl_dir="$withval")
> AC_MSG_RESULT($mozilla_incl_dir)
>
> dnl check for gtkmozembed.h
> dnl assuming no trailing backslash on the provided directory! Should trim!
> dnl cannot muster sed technology...
> moz_incl_file="/gtkmozembed.h"
> moz_incl=$mozilla_incl_dir$moz_incl_file
>
> if test ! -e $moz_incl; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([Couldn't find the Mozilla header file
> gtkmozembed.h.
> If you don't have this file on your system, please download a
> source package
> from http://mozilla.org before continuing with this installation.
> If you have this file, try telling configure where you have it installed
> with:
>
> ./configure --with-mozilla-incl-dir=DIR
>
> replacing DIR with the directory name where gtkmozembed.h lives.
> See the file 'config.log' for further diagnostics.])
> fi
>
> dnl Note the C++ hard code here. If you use AC_PROG_CC in your
> configure.in,
> dnl you'll want to change the CXXFLAGS below to CFLAGS.
> if test $mozilla_incl_dir != "."; then
> CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I$mozilla_incl_dir `gtk-config --cflags`"
> else
> CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS `gtk-config --cflags`"
> fi
>
> dnl try it out -- if successful sets config.h and LIBS ovar
> AC_CHECK_LIB(gtkembedmoz,gtk_moz_embed_new,,BAD_LINK=t)
>
> if test BAD_LINK = t; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([
>
> The specified library, $MOZ_LIB, did not work properly.
> Perhaps you need a newer version of Mozilla.
>
> If you don't have mozilla installed, please download it from
> http://mozilla.org before continuing with this installation.
> If you have Mozilla installed, try telling configure
> where you have it installed with:
>
> ./configure --with-mozilla-dir=DIR
>
> replacing DIR with the Mozilla installation directory.
> See the file 'config.log' for further diagnostics.])
>
> fi
>
> ])
>
> dnl **************** end aclocal.m4 addition ********
>
> Dan Mosedale wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm developing a GTK+ app that uses the gtkembedmoz control. I
> am trying
> >>to leverage the GNU make tools to make my app as platform
> independent as
> >>possible so I don't want to distribute pre-compiled gecko
> components but
> >>rather use ./configure to set up everything I need to build.
> Initially I
> >>am focusing on *NIX builds. I don't have much experience with autoconf
> >>so some of these questions may be dumb. Here are the problems I think I
> >>am looking at:
> >>
> >>1) I'd like people to just be able to install the vanilla binary builds
> >>and have my program's configure find the appropriate installed
> >>libraries. I don't believe the mozilla installation either a) puts the
> >>necessary libraries in a system library path or b) updates the linker's
> >>search path (in /etc/ld.so.conf). This makes it tough to use the
> >>AC_CHECK_LIB macro. Any thoughts on this? I can include a
> >>--with-mozilla-dir=DIR configure option but that still doesn't give me
> >>enough to use AC_CHECK_LIB since there is no way to provide a -L
> >>directory to the test linker.
> >>
> >>2) I don't see any headers installed with the vanilla distributions. My
> >>application needs to #include gtkmozembed.h. The mozilla
> ./configure has
> >>munged my copy of gtkmozembed.h so I'm assuming can't just package a
> >>copy in with my source code. Or is this not true?
> >>
> >
> > I've added .unix to the newsgroups line, in the hopes that someone
> > there who knows a bit more (blizzard? cls?) will chime in with advice
> > for the above questions.
> >
> >
> >>Is there an aclocal.m4 out there that I can start with to resolve some
> >>of these issues? Or am I left with no option but to release
> >>platform-specific source distributions?
> >>
> >
> > If there's not, consider filing a bug in bugzilla to create one and
> > get it checeked into the Mozilla tree. I think many folks would be
> > interested in building off such work.
> >
> > Dan
> >
>
>
>
