Re: Making camlibs and iolibs relocatable

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 01:41:05PM +0100, Jim Easterbrook wrote:
> I've recently added "binary wheels" to my Python interface to libgphoto2.
> These include pre-built copies of libgphoto2 v2.5.27 and are much quicker
> and easier for a user to install as they don't have to install libgphoto2
> (development headers) and compile the interface files.
> 
> One problem I encountered was the hard coding of absolute paths into where
> libgphoto2 looks for its camlibs and iolibs. Luckily the CAMLIBS and IOLIBS
> environment variables solve that problem, but I'd rather they weren't
> labelled as for "broken/test installations".

From my point of view this is a valid usage scenario.

The libgphoto2 toplevel configure can set --with-camlibdir=PATH already to set
the default, the libgphoto2_port configure would need --with-iolibdir=PATH to set the default,

But you can use it with CAMLIBS and IOLIBS already I would say.

Ciao, Marcus