Hi Niels, this looks like an excellent solution to us!
Thanks! Anders Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wednesday 22 October 2008 16.57.47 Niels Roest wrote: > Hi Anders, > I agree that there are multiple scenarios where this flexibility is > required. > > I just added the option > -module-dir=<directory> > with which you can override the module search directory. > This limits your modules to 1 location (as previously) but at least you > can change it easily now. > Check the latest commit in the 1.3.x branch. > > Greets > Niels > > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > as we in our work target a large number of possible hardware platforms > > with various OS and software versions we can not be sure about paths for > > DirectFB modules. Even if we deliver necessary DirectFB libraries and > > modules with our software the customers may want to place the software > > package in very different locations than we thought about. Since DirectFB > > uses a hard coded path to the module directory this causes problems. > > > > Attached there is a patch containing code that we have used to solve this > > for some time. It iterates through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and searches each > > element there for a directfb folder. If it is found this is used when > > loading modules. > > > > Is there any other way to gain the same functionality already? If not, > > would it be possible to add something like this to future versions? I > > think this functionality is very positive for users like us, since target > > devices look very different. > > > > > > With best regards, > > Anders Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > directfb-dev mailing list > > directfb-dev@directfb.org > > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
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