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

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not convinced that locating the binary file does solve the
> problem of locating the data and configuration files. Is there a
> reliable way to determine these directories when the path of the
> executable is known? I don't think so. The software might have been
> compiled with --datadir set to something completely unrelated. Same
> goes for configuration files.
> It's common practise to call configure
> with --sysconfdir=/etc.  How is your proposal for relocatable packages
> going to deal with this?

How about adding a configure option which makes your app use 
g_find_your_own_path(), unless the user explicitly specified 
--*dir=/wherever ? I've already written code for this (in the BinReloc 
autoconf macro).