On 3/02/2009 4:15 AM, Michel such wrote:
To put this another way, in Windows, relative paths are better than absolute paths. This is how BRLTTY handles this in its Windows build; it has an option you can pass to configure which allows you to use relative paths. They call it --enable-relocatable-install.It assumes that the directory containing the conversion tables and the .cfg files should be somewhere under "c:\Program Files". It would be better, in my opinion, if it would be "Program " independant. The better would be to retrieve the directory where the program runs from.
Right now, with absolute paths, even if we specified the prefix as c:\liblouis, this would be problematic, as it means all users must install to this directory. Relative paths would solve this issue.
I can't quite figure out from the BRLTTY code how they've done this. I don't really understand autotools well enough at this point. :)
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