Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> >>> "Nicholas" == Nicholas R Markham <markhamnr@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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