Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > I've stopped hard-coding absolute paths in my package because it > hinders relocation of binary packages. > > Instead, at configure-time (not everybody will like this) I turn > each pathname into a path relative to $(prefix), and guess > $(prefix) at run-time. > > See the following macros > > http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/relpath.html > http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/normpath.html > > and > > http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Miscellaneous/stdrelpaths.html
That's good practice, if you ask me. I think Montavista Linux's cross toolchain build script does something similar to make their cross-gcc relocatable on install. (I can post their gcc patch if anyone's interested; it's probably not as pretty). Thanks for posting that tip. - Dan
