[Gnucash-changes] r12956 - gnucash/trunk/src - Major step in extraction of application startup from guile.

[David Hampton]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:38 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:

>   Caveat: We have multiple mechanisms for handling the filename
>   argument string -- some in guile and some in C.  The C-side mechanisms
>   (in engine/gnc-filepath-utils.c) seem a little nicer than the guile
>   ones (in main.scm).  They have slightly different behavior (e.g. which
>   paths they'll search for data files.)  They both handle URIs and
>   making absolute paths out of relative ones.  This patch switches from
>   using the guile functions to the C function.  I've tested that the common
>   cases are handled the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me if some 
>   corner-cases are not.

Nice work.  Did you test with and without the --opt-style-install
configure argument?  That's where most of the path search stuff trips
up.

David