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From: "Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:28:19 +0200
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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@ukf.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:10:21 +0200, "Sergey Koshcheyev"
> <serko84@hotmail.com> strongly typed:
>
> >I believe most GPLed C/C++ programs for Unix have such paths hard-coded
into
> >them, configured at build-time, using autoconf. You might consider that
> >approach too.
>
> Surely that's the exact opposite of what should be recommended!

Well, everybody does it this way anyway (if I understood correctly). Also,
why mess with complicated, non-portable and non-reliable things like
determining the executable path? For example, if somebody creates a
(symbolic) link to your program from some directory, why require them to
also create links for the data?

Sergey.