[Proj] Finding PROJ_LIB from application

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Roger Bivand wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to query the system for the path to lib - effectively the
>> path value in sysname in pj_open_lib.c, line 184? From inside R, I'd like
>> to be able to show which path is being used.
>
> There doesn't appear to be any explicit support for this, but there
> are a couple of hacks available if "don't know" isn't fatal:
>
> 1. Set PROJ_DEBUG, (temporarily) point stderr at a file, and parse the
> filename out of the debug message (which could contain other text if
> library functions or the finder function write to stderr).
>
> 2. Make a copy of pj_open_lib() which returns the path rather than
> opening it, call fstat(fileno(fp)) and stat(pathname), and check that
> the dev/inode match.
>
> 3. On Linux, use fileno() to get a descriptor from the returned FILE*
> and look up the filename in /proc/self/fd/<fd>. Some other Unices
> support /proc, but I don't know how consistent they are.
>
> 4. On Windows, GetFinalPathNameByHandle(_get_osfhandle(_fileno(fp))).

Glynn,

Thanks. For now, I've backed off until users require the path displayed - 
I need to check out the OSX PPC endian issue first.

Best wishes,

Roger

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