Re: Allow Lyx to find itself if symlinked.

[miyata]

"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As one of the concerns was portability and with all UN*X ports usually
> you have trouble with hardcoded pathnames hidden somewhere (at least on
> OS/2), could it be possible to forget about executable absolute
> pathname and just run it.
>
> On OS/2 DLL's (so's on some U*Xs) are simply searched in LIBPATH; more
> data in DPATH and PATH. Apart from that, there are no standard
> directories, you could count on.
>
> A fringe benefit could be that the nasty drive letter problem would be
> avoided (I think even some older main frame systems do use them: If you
> finally got the path, you can be sure, you hit the wrong drive).

The code in question is used to locate configuration files,
when LyX is *not* yet installed.  This functionality is important
for developers/users to test new versions (especially with
developer versions).

Regards,
        SMiyata