Re: [qub] more configure.ac fun

[stephan b. <st...@ei...>]

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 01:42 am, you wrote:
> > > (Or *maybe*... let me know if this crosses the thin line between
> > > brilliant hack & foul kludge...
>
> OK, "in theory", now when you run qub from the source tree (instead of
> doing a make install), it will automatically look in the source tree
> for GComs.  The order of its ClassLoaders are:
>
> - gameroot
> - source tree
> - /usr/local/..., or whatever your --prefix is
>
> so the gameroot still takes precedence.

frigging brilliant. :) that's a very good idea.

> This is done by adding "-libgcom-auxgcom ../gcoms" to the
> libtool-generated "qub" script, not by looking at argv[0] in qub, so
> when you do a "make install", the installed executable won't know
> anything about this, and will only look in gameroot and --prefix.
> (Although you can still pass it -libgcom-auxgcom ... if you want.)

That's an excellent idea. Just out of curiousity, how do you go about editing 
the libtool-generated copy?

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