Re: Patches for OS/2 (2)

[Bruno Haible]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> >  1) Make libintl look for its files in some directory relative to the
> >     place where the executable program is installed.  For example,
> >     if foo.exe is in f:/usr/local/bin, make it so libintl looks for its
> >     files in ../share/ relative to where foo.exe lives.  This could be
> >     implemented by making foo.exe push into environment some variable
> >     that libintl would look at, and making f:/usr/local/share the value
> >     of that variable. (foo.exe knows where it lives by looking at its
> >     argv[0].)

This is indeed roughly how --enable-relocatable works, except that it doesn't
use environment variables (because environment variables are made for
communication between a process and its child processes, not between a
program and its libraries).

On Thursday 14 November 2002, Andreas Buening wrote:
> This is much more complicated because
> b) The source code of every executable that uses libintl would have to
>    be modified.
> c) I'm not sure about this but is it guaranteed that argv[0] contains
>    a real path and not just "foo"?

If something doesn't work as expected on OS/2, please provide patches to
intl/relocatable.c.

Bruno