hard-coded paths

[Chuck Swiger]

Constantine wrote:
> I am porting an application that has hard-coded paths for the message 
> files. They are defined in the Makefile, but still they are hardcoded in 
> the programme. Is there a way to go around this problem? As it is, the 
> port will not work on systems with installations different from the one 
> of compile time.

Pre-built packages effectively have hard-coded paths in them regardless, so 
you may be making more of this issue than you need to.

If the Makefile is generated via the common ./configure process, the ports 
Makefile ought to pass in an appropriate installation prefix if the user has 
changed it from the default of /usr/local.  If the program does something 
different, use REINPLACE_CMD to update the hardcoded paths in place to 
whatever $LOCALBASE is set to.

[ Perhaps you ought to set "NO_PACKAGE", too. ]

-- 
-Chuck