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Configuration system improvements.

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Richard Frith-MacDonald 2008-01-10 11:14:30 +00:00
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@ -581,7 +581,9 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
<p>
All the above values from the configuration file are made
available in the NSUserDefaults system at runtime, in the
GSConfigDomain of the defaults.<br />
GSConfigDomain (along with any defaults provided in the
GlobalDefaults.plist file in the same directory as the
config file).<br />
In addition, the configuration file may contain the key
<em>GNUSTEP_EXTRA</em> with a value set to be a comma separated
list of extra key names which are to be allowed in the config
@ -631,10 +633,11 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
<p>
Firstly, variables in the configuration file which define
paths, are expected to by full path specifications, except
for the special case in which they begin with dot-slash (./).
In this case the text after the dot-slash is appended to
the path to the directory containing the configuration file
(or specified to contain the configuration file if no
for the special case in which they begin with dot-slash (./)
or dot-dot-slash (../).
In this case the path from the variable is appended to the
path of the directory containing the configuration file
(or the path specified to contain the configuration file if no
configuration file exists) to form the value used.
</p>
<p>
@ -642,10 +645,8 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
as the location of the config file (or specified by
the GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE environment variable unless that option
was disabled when the base library was configured)
begins with a dot and slash (./) then the path used for that
file is made relative to the base library.<br />
ie the text after the dot-slash is appended to the path of the
directory containing the gnustep-base library.
begins with a dot-slash (./) or dot-dot-slash (../) then the path
used for that file is made relative to the base library.
</p>
<p>
So you can bundle the whole lot together in one directory,
@ -660,7 +661,7 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
a path with a trailing slash so that the base library will
<em>not</em> read it, and will use the builtin default values.<br />
To do this, you would configure using the options
<code>--with-config-file=./</code> and
<code>--with-config-file=not-used/</code> and
<code>--with-default-file=myConfig</code> where <em>myConfig</em>
is a file containing the paths you want to use relative to the
location the base library gets installed in.<br />