Hi, I would like to introduce configuration files to a software project I am supporting with build infrastructure. The C programs depend on quite a few libraries from different sources. As a result of development evolution, we have hardcoded paths in the source which would be better served as parameters read from configuration files, so the location of dependencies can be adjusted without modifying the code. We need this functionality for runtime as well as compile time.
I've gotten started in the makefile with: version ?= dev include conf/default.mk include conf/$(version).mk which allows for a single line conf/dev.mk file to reconfigure a longer ./conf/default.mk file. This must be a programming pattern in C code with lots of templates to choose from? It would also be nice to see an example of searching $(dirname "$0")/conf/program.conf $HOME/program.conf /etc/program.conf for inputs. I've seen this pattern in various program ktrace outputs, and expected an easy to find a solution with google. Until, I realized reverse engineering source code might be more straightforward. Does anyone have an example program recommendation or documentation for this programming? -George I'm supporting a software project -- George Georgalis, (415) 894-2710, http://www.galis.org/
