[Vm-dev] search order for plugins

[Ian Piumarta]

On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:53 PM, subbukk wrote:

> There is the command line override to take care of special cases.

Which just sets the same internal variable as is set by  
SQUEAK_PLUGIN_PATH.

>    libpath = -plugin option if given followed by dirname of argv[0]

There is no guarantee that argv[0] contains anything beyond the word  
'squeak'.

> BTW, isn't VM_LIBDIR set at compile time?

It's based on the configured ${prefix}.

> the package maintainer, so I would prefer $(dirname $0) to VM_LIBDIR.

See above.

> In our case, there is only one command. A command line option  
> should suffice

There is an option.  Every env var has a corresponding option (and  
that takes precedence).

Cheers,
Ian