Re: where does mc find the files it needs?

[Miven Dooligan <dooligan intergate ca>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> ...how does mother mc know where to find all this
> stuff if I do not see $MC_DATADIR being set?

They're defined in ./configure (around line 177) at compile time.
Indeed they have changed over time, notably since 4.5.55.
Good thing too, my /usr/lib is *crowded*. I have programs that
keep their binaries in there for some reason.

Here's an excerpt from a program called fbi that pretty
much sums up your confusion IMHO:

static char *default_font[] = {

    /* why the heck every f*cking distribution picks another
       location for these fonts ??? */

    "/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf",
    "/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf.gz",
    "/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz",
    "/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf",
    "/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf.gz",
    "/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz",
    "/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf",
    "/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf.gz",
    "/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz",
    "/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf",
    "/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf.gz",
    "/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz",
    NULL
};

So, as you can see, it tends to be up to the particular
distribution where to hide things. Good luck.



Peace to all.