Re: thanks and rant

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
>> Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>  =20
>>> Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:
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>>>    =20
>>>> in trm/post.trm there's a really ugly hardcoded path:
>>>>
>>>> #ifndef GNUPLOT_PS_DIR
>>>> #define GNUPLOT_PS_DIR "/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.1/PostScript"
>>>> #endif
>>>>      =20
>> (...)
>>
>> I don't have any opinion on what to do when GNUPLOT_PS_DIR is not=20
>> defined (ie when not using ./configure), the best is to make sure that=
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>> all custom makefile's do that properly (something else to do before 4.=
2=20
>> I think).
>>  =20
> In fact this would be wrong for Windows and probably other platforms=20
> (OS/2 ?), where there are no standard filesystem directories. On these =

> platforms, hardcoding a path at compile time is completely wrong.
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> Two alternatives for them :
> - Encode the paths relatively to the binary. Windows has a function for=
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> that : GetModuleFileName().

I think, to achieve the same functionality as on other platforms this
would be the way to do it. Btw. shouldn't argv[0] contain the path
to the executable in a bit more platform independent way?

Bastian