Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Startup problems due to help

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:
> Luke Hart wrote:
> > Alex Bligh wrote:
> > > I'm not sure that "relative to the executable" is ever going
> > > to work with distros (or indeed in any environment other than with
> > > the installer), but that's OK if you allow the compile-time override.
> > > We'll just have to remember to tell distro maintainers to set it.
> > It does work if relative the executable means ../shared/......, 
> > that's the whole point of binreloc.
>
> Yes, but it can't be clairvoyant. IE if the distro choses to put
> the executable in /usr/bin/xaralx but the data in
> /usr/shared/resources/xaralx, then it's not going to find it.
>
> A more realistic example would be /opt installation.
>
> I suppose I should have said "it's never going to work with distros
> unless the relative path from the executable to the relevant
> resources is guaranteed to be the same as we use to get autopackage
> to work".
>
> Alex
Yes, you're right it won't work out of the box on a distribution that 
doesn't follow the Linux FHS and for these I nearly have a patch that 
will allow specification of the resource directory at configure\build 
time. I do believe that it will work correctly with an application under 
/opt (although I am just implying this from how man pages are dealt 
with, under /opt/<package>/share/man):

/opt/xara/bin/xaralx      is the application
/opt/xara/share/docs   is the help


   Luke