1 /* Provide relocatable packages.
2 Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
6 under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
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20 #ifndef _RELOCATABLE_H
21 #define _RELOCATABLE_H
28 /* This can be enabled through the configure --enable-relocatable option. */
29 #if ENABLE_RELOCATABLE
31 /* When building a DLL, we must export some functions. Note that because
32 this is a private .h file, we don't need to use __declspec(dllimport)
34 #if HAVE_VISIBILITY && BUILDING_DLL
35 # define RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED __attribute__((__visibility__("default")))
36 #elif defined _MSC_VER && BUILDING_DLL
37 # define RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED __declspec(dllexport)
39 # define RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED
42 /* Sets the original and the current installation prefix of the package.
43 Relocation simply replaces a pathname starting with the original prefix
44 by the corresponding pathname with the current prefix instead. Both
45 prefixes should be directory names without trailing slash (i.e. use ""
47 extern RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED
void
48 set_relocation_prefix (const char *orig_prefix
,
49 const char *curr_prefix
);
51 /* Returns the pathname, relocated according to the current installation
53 The returned string is either PATHNAME unmodified or a freshly allocated
54 string that you can free with free() after casting it to 'char *'. */
55 extern const char * relocate (const char *pathname
);
57 /* Memory management: relocate() potentially allocates memory, because it has
58 to construct a fresh pathname. If this is a problem because your program
59 calls relocate() frequently, think about caching the result. Or free the
60 return value if it was different from the argument pathname. */
62 /* Convenience function:
63 Computes the current installation prefix, based on the original
64 installation prefix, the original installation directory of a particular
65 file, and the current pathname of this file.
66 Returns it, freshly allocated. Returns NULL upon failure. */
67 extern char * compute_curr_prefix (const char *orig_installprefix
,
68 const char *orig_installdir
,
69 const char *curr_pathname
);
73 /* By default, we use the hardwired pathnames. */
74 #define relocate(pathname) (pathname)
83 #endif /* _RELOCATABLE_H */