Re: development work flow

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Martin Kalbfuß wrote:

> make & make install & program_name
>
> is the typically development work flow.
>
> I'm not sure if the program should get installed. If not, I don't know
> how to the program should find the data files properly.
>
> I'm generally not sure how the compiled program should find it's data
> files. passing something to config.h, use an environment variable or
> something similar?

In traditional Unix, programs get installed under a specified prefix 
(e.g. /usr/local) and if the program needs additional data files (e.g. 
under /usr/local/share/appname), then the full path to the directory 
containing these files is cached in a config.h file.  However, 
sometimes it is useful for the program to be relocatable (especially 
under systems like Apple's OS-X or Microsoft Windows) and then more 
sophisticated methods may need to be used to find the program's data 
files.

Bob
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