On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:14:30 -0800, James Harrison wrote: > Ive sucessfully installed yum-2.0.8 to /opt/yum-2.0.8/. > > However, some paths inside certain files are still hardcoded in place: > /etc/yum.conf, /usr/share/yum .... > > Is there some compile option that sets these paths to be under the --prefix > path? Ideally you wouldn't need to be sedding the sources or having a file/env var telling a program where it is. It'd just know. This is possible with ELF binaries because they can read /proc/self/exe or parse /proc/self/maps, but with scripts I'm not sure it works. You can do something like the Perl Findbin module which involves examining argv[0] and possibly scanning the path, but this is a rather nasty hack. I'd like the kernel to provide some way for scripts to locate their absolute path when run using a shebang line but I have no idea how hard that'd be to implement ... thanks -mike
