I found it useful to generalize .local

[Thiago Macieira]

Em segunda-feira, 11 de abril de 2011, às 12:08:01, Damjan Jovanovic escreveu:
> This is not an issue that can really be fixed portably: argv[0] is
> unreliable, POSIX has no API like GetModuleHandle() and
> GetModulePath() on Windows, /proc/self/exe is Linux-only and can only
> be used for application, while searching the lines in /proc/self/maps
> for an internal symbol is the only method available to a library to
> discover its own path, only works on Linux, and is obscure and unknown
> to the vast majority of developers.

Agreed, but that's a separate problem. Of course you need the application to 
be relocatable for you to install with $HOME/.local as a prefix.

But simple scripts can be placed in $HOME/.local/bin already and building from 
source would allow one to simply say --prefix=$HOME/.local.

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