Re: GNUSTEP_USER_CONFIG problem (Windows)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 5 Dec 2005, at 23:07, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> > > Actually, I thought it was needed for deployment (esp. for MS-  
> > > Windows).
> > >  If an was build with C:/GNUstep/System but has to be installed in
> > > D:/GNUstep/System.  But I'm just theorizing here.
> >
> > Not necessarily ... you can configure so that the location of  
> > path  are all relative to the config file,  and you can configure  
> > so that  the location of the config file is relative to the base  
> > library ...  so as long as the executable can find the gnustep- 
> > base dll/so,  everything will run.
>
> ho......
>
> it would be VERY nice indeed if you could simply put the  
> GNUstep.conf file in the same directory as the dll to be found  
> automatically.

You can ... thats' the way (well, a major one of the ways) the new  
config file system is intended to be used on windows (configure -- 
with-config-file=./GNUstep.conf).

I've added some documentation for this in the filesystem document in  
the make package ... needs to be more extensive and polished, but  
it's a start.
I'm also going to try to improve the configure scripts in make and  
base to try and get them to make better choices about where to put  
things on windows when you don't explicitly give them instructions  
with the various options like --with-config-file=