GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Deborah Goldsmith wrote,
> If you want to get the path to the main executable on Mac OS X, use  
> _NSGetExecutablePath. See:
>
> man 3 dyld
>
That's exactly what we need.  The man page is on the web for those  
without a mac:

   http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/dyld.3.html

Thanks Deborah!

Manuel

> On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:07 AM, Christian Maeder wrote:
>
>> An additional sanity check of "topdir" makes sense then.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> Alfonso Acosta wrote:
>>> Simon, as usual, is right. It's been quite a while since I last
>>> seriously coded in C. From the exec* man page:
>>>
>>> "The first argument, *by convention*, should point to the file name
>>> associated with the file being executed."
>>>
>>> However, if nothing better is found I guess it's better to rely on  
>>> an
>>> extended convention rather than hardcoding paths.
>>>
>>> On Nov 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Christian Maeder wrote:
>>>>> Alfonso Acosta wrote:
>>>>>> On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta <alfonso.acosta at gmail.com 
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>> Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script  
>>>>>>> ($0) for
>>>>>>> absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones.
>>>>>> I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for  
>>>>>> absolute paths
>>>>>> and combine it with pwd for relative ones.
>>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>> reldir=`dirname $0`
>>>>> topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)`
>>>> There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can  
>>>> set $0 to
>>>> whatever you like when calling exec*().
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>       Simon
>>>>
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