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2005-10-17 Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
* Source/NSPathUtilities.m: Changes to support relocation of the
entire system simply by copying the directory containing it around.
2005-10-16 Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
* Source/NSPathUtilities.m: Set default value for defaults directory

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Documentation/Base.gsdoc
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/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf, for instance.<br />
The location of this file can be overridden using the
GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.<br />
This file is not
required. If it does not appear, then default values will
be used for the standard path locations. System paths are
defined by the following:
The configuration file is not actually required to exist.
If it does not exist, then default values will be used
for the standard path locations.<br />
System paths are defined by the following:
</p>
<deflist>
<term>GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT</term>
@ -547,7 +547,34 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
NSLocalDomainMask as appropriate.
</p>
</subsect>
<subsect>
<heading>Relocatable packages</heading>
<p>
The configuration files system has two features which make
it possible to build standalone packages containing the
entire GNUstep system in a form which can be moved anywhere
and just run.
</p>
<p>
Firstly, wariables 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 dot-slash is replaced by the path to the
directory containing the configuration file (or specified to
contain the configuration file if no configuration file exists).
</p>
<p>
Secondly, If the value specified by GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE (or
built into the base library) itself begins with a dot and
slash (./) then the base directory used for relative paths
is the directory containing the gnustep-base library.
</p>
<p>
So you can bundle the whole lot together in one directory,
and configure various relative paths in that directory, then
move the directory around wherever you like.
</p>
</subsect>
<subsect>
<heading>.GNUstep.conf files</heading>
<p>

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Source/NSPathUtilities.m
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#include "config.h"
#include "GNUstepBase/preface.h"
#include "objc-load.h"
#include "Foundation/NSObjCRuntime.h"
#include "Foundation/NSString.h"
#include "Foundation/NSPathUtilities.h"
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stringify(GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE)];
}
file = [file stringByStandardizingPath];
/*
* Special case ... if the config file location begins './'
* then we use the directory containing the base library as
* the base path.
*/
if ([file hasPrefix: @"./"] == YES)
{
Class c = [NSProcessInfo class];
file = objc_get_symbol_path (c, 0);
}
gnustepConfigPath = [file stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
RETAIN(gnustepConfigPath);
ParseConfigurationFile(file, conf);