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1 /* Provide relocatable packages.
2    Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2008-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3    Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
4 
5    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6    it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
7    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
8    (at your option) any later version.
9 
10    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
13    GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 
15    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
16    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
17 
18 #ifndef _RELOCATABLE_H
19 #define _RELOCATABLE_H
20 
21 #ifdef __cplusplus
22 extern "C" {
23 #endif
24 
25 
26 /* This can be enabled through the configure --enable-relocatable option.  */
27 #if ENABLE_RELOCATABLE
28 
29 /* When building a DLL, we must export some functions.  Note that because
30    this is a private .h file, we don't need to use __declspec(dllimport)
31    in any case.  */
32 #if HAVE_VISIBILITY && BUILDING_DLL
33 # define RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED __attribute__((__visibility__("default")))
34 #elif defined _MSC_VER && BUILDING_DLL
35 # define RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED __declspec(dllexport)
36 #else
37 # define RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED
38 #endif
39 
40 /* Sets the original and the current installation prefix of the package.
41    Relocation simply replaces a pathname starting with the original prefix
42    by the corresponding pathname with the current prefix instead.  Both
43    prefixes should be directory names without trailing slash (i.e. use ""
44    instead of "/").  */
45 extern RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED void
46        set_relocation_prefix (const char *orig_prefix,
47                               const char *curr_prefix);
48 
49 /* Returns the pathname, relocated according to the current installation
50    directory.
51    The returned string is either PATHNAME unmodified or a freshly allocated
52    string that you can free with free() after casting it to 'char *'.  */
53 extern const char * relocate (const char *pathname);
54 
55 /* Returns the pathname, relocated according to the current installation
56    directory.
57    This function sets *ALLOCATEDP to the allocated memory, or to NULL if
58    no memory allocation occurs.  So that, after you're done with the return
59    value, to reclaim allocated memory, you can do: free (*ALLOCATEDP).  */
60 extern const char * relocate2 (const char *pathname, char **allocatedp);
61 
62 /* Memory management: relocate() potentially allocates memory, because it has
63    to construct a fresh pathname.  If this is a problem because your program
64    calls relocate() frequently or because you want to fix all potential memory
65    leaks anyway, you have three options:
66    1) Use this idiom:
67         const char *pathname = ...;
68         const char *rel_pathname = relocate (pathname);
69         ...
70         if (rel_pathname != pathname)
71           free ((char *) rel_pathname);
72    2) Use this idiom:
73         char *allocated;
74         const char *rel_pathname = relocate2 (..., &allocated);
75         ...
76         free (allocated);
77    3) Think about caching the result.  */
78 
79 /* Convenience function:
80    Computes the current installation prefix, based on the original
81    installation prefix, the original installation directory of a particular
82    file, and the current pathname of this file.
83    Returns it, freshly allocated.  Returns NULL upon failure.  */
84 extern char * compute_curr_prefix (const char *orig_installprefix,
85                                    const char *orig_installdir,
86                                    const char *curr_pathname);
87 
88 #else
89 
90 /* By default, we use the hardwired pathnames.  */
91 #define relocate(pathname) (pathname)
92 #define relocate2(pathname,allocatedp) (*(allocatedp) = NULL, (pathname))
93 
94 #endif
95 
96 
97 #ifdef __cplusplus
98 }
99 #endif
100 
101 #endif /* _RELOCATABLE_H */
102