KStandardDirs and Autopackage

[Arend van Beelen jr.]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 20:13, Leo Savernik wrote:
[...]
> One question that pops up in my mind:
>
> If I have a standalone, autopackage-enabled KDE app under
> /opt/my-kde-app
>
> and then make a symlink like
>
> ln -s /opt/my-kde-app/bin/my-kde-app /usr/X11/bin/my-kde-app
>
> to be able to start it from the command line, which prefix would be
> returned then by br's PREFIX? The symlinked one /usr/X11, or the canonical
> one /opt/my-kde-app.
BinReloc queries the kernel to ask the path of the executable that's being 
run. Logically, the kernel will provide the path of the real executable, not 
the symlink (as you can't run a symlink). You might be able to fool it using 
hard-links, but that's not really surprising I'd say.

[...]

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