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[TuxKart-devel] Location sysem

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Hey there,

 I noticed that TuxKart doesn't make a very smart checking where it is placed. 
Just looks at local dir, up dir and system chunk (/usr).
 Smarter location checking would be:
- asking proc for the binary directory;
- look at the way the binary was executed - won't be able to get the location 
for symlinks.

 An implementation of the last one is here:
http://

 By the way, using chdir() is kinda of ugly. What about having a global 
string?

 Best fix, however, would be to make Linux file manager to execute binaries 
from their own dir.

Cheers,
 Ricardo
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[TuxKart-devel] Re: Location sysem

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

 The link is this:
http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/repository/system/

 It is offline currently. Have to pay the bill. :D

Ricardo

Em Domingo, 27 de Junho de 2004 13:31, escreveu:
> Hey there,
>
>  I noticed that TuxKart doesn't make a very smart checking where it is
> placed. Just looks at local dir, up dir and system chunk (/usr).
>  Smarter location checking would be:
> - asking proc for the binary directory;
> - look at the way the binary was executed - won't be able to get the
> location for symlinks.
>
>  An implementation of the last one is here:
> http://
>
>  By the way, using chdir() is kinda of ugly. What about having a global
> string?
>
>  Best fix, however, would be to make Linux file manager to execute binaries
> from their own dir.
>
> Cheers,
>  Ricardo
> (blacksheep from Linux Game Tome)

-- 
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Re: [TuxKart-devel] Location sysem

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ricardo Cruz wrote:

>  I noticed that TuxKart doesn't make a very smart checking where it is placed. 
> Just looks at local dir, up dir and system chunk (/usr).

If you 'make install', it should work out where it is OK...but you're right, it
could be better.

>  Smarter location checking would be:
> - asking proc for the binary directory;
> - look at the way the binary was executed - won't be able to get the location 
> for symlinks.

OK - gimme your sourceforge user name - you'll have CVS access and you can attack it.

>  By the way, using chdir() is kinda of ugly. What about having a global 
> string?

It's a LOT easier that way - no more messing around strcat'ing strings - all the
files are always in the exact same place once you've chdir'ed to the right directory.

Why do you think it's ugly?

>  Best fix, however, would be to make Linux file manager to execute binaries 
> from their own dir.

Hmmm - that's pretty controversial.

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