Re: Automake and directories

Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote:

> > midgard-schema gets this info from header files, so I should add sysconfdir option soon.
> > Or maybe we could replace midgard-config with better header files?
> > One doesn't have to compile midgard-apache module against mysql libraries, and
> > it doesn't matter if you point to header files or to midgard-config while configuring it.
> 
> A better alternative for compiled programs that need to access the
> configuration and other hardcoded directories directly would be to use
> something like:
> 
>     extern const char *midgard_get_sysconfdir(void);

I am not sure I follow you. This should returns constant defined in header.
Why function ten?
 
> This way there won't be problems when the underlying midgard-core gets
> recompiled with different paths.
> 
> Scripts like datagard should use midgard-config to get the correct paths.

Hmmm.... I start to think about midgard config methods , and future datagard 
written with php. Any tool could just use midgard config object.

Piotras