Re: Hardcoding $prefix

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Ralph Walden <rwalden tripos com> writes:

> I've noticed that Pango will hardcode the $prefix from the build
> process into the library, and then use this path to find
> $prefix/etc/ configuration stuff (pango.aliases, etc.)
> 
> This makes it impossible to distribute binaries of these libraries
> and have them look for these files in some other location on
> the user's system. ( I do know about the ~/.pango.aliases, but
> I'd prefer to have a default.)

you could use the environment variable PANGO_RC_FILE to point pango to
the pangorc file and define the locations of the other files in there.


Salut, Sven