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Re: finding datadir from executable
From: |
Bruce Korb |
Subject: |
Re: finding datadir from executable |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:42:21 -0700 |
Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> >>> "Nicholas" == Nicholas R Markham <address@hidden> 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..... :-)
Cheers - Bruce
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- Re: finding datadir from executable, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/05
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- Re: finding datadir from executable, Bruce Korb, 2004/09/11
- Re: finding datadir from executable, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/11
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- Re: finding datadir from executable, Ralph Corderoy, 2004/09/11
- Re: finding datadir from executable, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/11
- Re: finding datadir from executable, Andreas Schwab, 2004/09/11
- Re: finding datadir from executable, Ralph Corderoy, 2004/09/11
- Re: finding datadir from executable, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/11