Relocation Notes

Techniques:

• KDE Applications
  • KStandardDirs class

Interesting resources:

• Relocation macros in the Autoconf Macro Archive
  • AX_COMPUTE_RELATIVE_PATHS(PATH-LIST)
  • AX_COMPUTE_STANDARD_RELATIVE_PATHS
• Autopackage project
  • Apbuild / Apgcc
  • Guide to Making Relocatable Applications (BinReloc 2.0)
• Gnulib relocation macro(s)
• The nixpkgs project uses a few techniques for working around relocation issues, but the main one appears to be a "wrapper generator" script to create wrappers that set env vars.
• For .NET software using the Mono framework, see http://www.mono-project.com/Guidelines:Application_Deployment#Relocation.
• Producing relocatable packages with the GNU build system
• Tablet Python #1 - Relocatable Software
• Relocatable Wrinkles: Things to Consider
• relocatable packages
• Making relocatable packages with JHBuild - this discusses search/replace hacks, and talks specifically about how nix does it with their /nix/store/...<hash>... paths.