From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Relocatable installation Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:49:30 +0100 Organization: www.AvatarAcademy.nl Message-ID: <1296510570.17905.52.camel@vuurvlieg> References: <1296330082.8111.371.camel@vuurvlieg> <87lj2375k1.fsf@gnu.org> <1296505613.17905.18.camel@vuurvlieg> <1296507337.17905.26.camel@vuurvlieg> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296511970 22518 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2011 22:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 23:12:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk1zJ-0004KU-Ds for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:12:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pk1fL-0001eK-0s for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:52:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42857 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pk1ew-0001X8-Je for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk1cr-0004P2-6K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.39]:3338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk1cq-0004Oh-VA; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.112] (peder.onsbrabantnet.nl [88.159.206.46] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p0VLnUuQ009331; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:49:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from janneke-list@xs4all.nl) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl id p0VLnUuQ009331 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-Received-From: 194.109.24.39 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11473 Archived-At: Andy Wingo schreef op ma 31-01-2011 om 22:30 [+0100]: > May I suggest then a bit more rigor in the choice of paths. Sure. > What paths does Guile use? Good question. I'm rather new to 1.9 series. > Are they entirely taken from argv0 The only thing this reloc patch takes from argv0 is BINDIR and we assume that no other options are given to configure than --prefix=3D/some/path [ie, not --libdir=3D/whole/other/path]. > , or are they hard-coded at build time? =20 > I'm not opposed to relocatable builds, in > principle, but if you can move Guile around, then it needs to hard-code > no paths in it. Well, either that or simply prepend the new, dynamically=20 relocated paths. Removing all hardcoded paths when using relocation does make sense, though. You can't pick-up stuff from another hardcoded install. Hmm. Greetings, Jan. --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.= nl =20