On 8 January 2014 05:59, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I think that the following change to Gnulib would clarify. I
> have not actually tested the shell code it suggests, although I
> probably should. Will you take a look at it?
>
> diff --git a/doc/relocatable-maint.texi b/doc/relocatable-maint.texi
> index 58160cf..86d1438 100644
> --- a/doc/relocatable-maint.texi
> +++ b/doc/relocatable-maint.texi
> @@ -122,12 +122,20 @@ if test "@@RELOCATABLE@@" = yes; then
> orig_installdir="$bindir" # see Makefile.am's *_SCRIPTS variables
> func_find_curr_installdir # determine curr_installdir
> func_find_prefixes
> - # Relocate the directory variables that we use.
> - gettext_dir=`
> - echo "$gettext_dir/" \
> + relocate () {
> + echo "$1/" \
> | sed -e "s%^$@{orig_installprefix@}/%$@{curr_installprefix@}/%" \
> - | sed -e 's,/$,,'`
> + | sed -e 's,/$,,'
> + }
> +else
> + relocate () {
> + echo "$1"
> + }
> fi
> +
> +# Get some relocated directory names.
> +sysconfdir=`relocate "@@sysconfdir@@"`
> +some_datadir=`relocate "@@datadir@@/something"`
> @end example
>
> You must adapt the definition of @code{orig_installdir}, depending on
>
This looks good to me. I don't currently have a shell use via which to test
it, but I will implement the same idea in my Perl version.
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