Re: Proposal: an addition to glib for getting the absolute path of the current binary.

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>]

* James Henstridge <james daa com au> [2004-04-13 22:33:05 +0800]:

<snip>
> The simplest approach for this would be something like this:
> 
>   1. get the executable's path
>   2. if the path for the executable matches the configure time
>      defaults, use the configure time defaults for things like sysconfdir
>   3. if the path doesn't match, assume that prefix is ".." relative to
>      the executable's path, and datadir=$prefix/share, etc.
> 
> Does this sound workable?


You forgot:

0. getenv() 


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