Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches

[John Davidorff Pell]

On 18 Aug 2004, at 01:19, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > True, but you need a relocatable install. In this case it would make 
> > sense for all the GNUstep stuff to use relative paths from where they 
> > are being run from, so when you run .../Tools/mytool it will know 
> > that ../Library/Frameworks is where the libraries are. This way, no 
> > extra-GNUstep system conf file is needed. It also relieves the user 
> > from having to install the conf file and edit it based on where they 
> > unrolled the binary dist (unless its done automatically which might 
> > clobber a user-installed GNUstep which depends on the file).
>
> This would be fine if apps were all to be run from a fixed location in 
> the hierarchy, but that's not the case, consider any app in the user 
> domain for instance.  People object to you telling them they can't put 
> individual apps where they like.

The price of putting apps where you want is to set the LD_* variable. 
This is not an unreasonable expectation and  relieves much of the 
kludge of other suggestions.

JP

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