Re: Draft pkgdatadir_r(filename) relocation function.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/20/07, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> "John McCabe-Dansted" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi, I bashed out this code on the bus. What do you think of the style?
>
> I've discovered that there's general-purpose relocatable binary
> support in the works for gnulib.  It looks like it's basically
> what we need, so I've offered to help out with hacking together
> the last few pieces.  I think that this is, in the end, a better
> solution than special-purpose code for PSPP.

I understand that relocate includes the absolute prefixes into the
final exe, which seems a little ugly. Still it would be cool to have
relocation on linux as well, and relocate seems to be the way to do
it.

I'll leave this in your capable hands then, and instead think about
writing a script to generate a proper windows installer.

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John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia