[haiku-development] Re: Support for Firefox in default SetupEnvironment?

  • From: "Fredrik Holmqvist" <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:52:45 +0100

>  > > If this is really only about the search paths for libraries and add-ons
>  > > we could as well add a simple feature to our runtime loader: From the
>  > > executable file it could read attributes like BEOS:LIBRARY_PATH and
>  > > BEOS:ADDON_PATH, which would override or extend the search paths. E.g.
>  > > "%A:%A/components:%P" for prepending the application dir and its
>  > > "components" subdir to the path.

If you want to try it the only path that should be needed to add is
./. Everything else is loaded by absolute path. The important thing to
test after doing so is to make sure https:// works properly.

-- 
Fredrik Holmqvist
Chaordic: things that thrive on the edge of chaos with just enough order to
give them pattern, but not so much to slow their adaptation and learning.

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