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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: How to find directory where the program is?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 05:57:15 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:28:19 +0200, Sergey Koshcheyev wrote:

> 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?

Actually I think that they have several paths hardcoded as I can see
from strace output that they search in several directories for a file.
But I'm a bit uncertain how you do this with autoconf/make. Anyway I
would like to look into these things a bit more before I resort to
hardcoding.

Preben
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