[Gm2] Re: About libraries and directories

[john o goyo]

On 29-Nov-10, at 2:56 AM, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> Christoph Schlegel <address@hidden> writes:
> > Hello Gaius,
> >
> > I just built gm2 from the cvs-latest tarball - now I have a  
> > question. I built the iso/socket example and it compiled fine.  
> > Executing the resulting program I get:
> >
> > address@hidden:~/Sources/gm2examples/iso/socket$ ./a.out
> > ../../gcc-4.1.2+gm2-cvs-latest/gcc/gm2/gm2-libs-iso/EXCEPTIONS.mod: 
> > 57:3:IOLink.RAISEdevException: channel does not belong to device  
> > in RAISE
> >
> > Now it is not the raised exception which makes me wonder but the  
> > location of the file EXCEPTIONS.mod which is used: I installed gm2  
> > to $HOME/gm2 as usual but the compiler still uses the files from  
> > the downloaded and unpacked tarball. Shouldn't it use the files  
> > from the make-installed compiler - in my case under $HOME/gm2?
> >
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > Christoph
>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> the location is derived from the symbol __FILE__ which is expanded  
> when
> compiled.  Maybe it would be helpful if the exception print should  
> strip
> the path from the filename given the mismatch between source file and
> installed library?

That would be much cleaner, Gaius, thank you.

john