Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!ugfailau From: ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How does a program get its path name? Message-ID: <8717@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: 21 Feb 88 10:40:40 GMT References: <11923@brl-adm.ARPA> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: ugfailau@joey.UUCP (Fai Lau) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 14 In article <11923@brl-adm.ARPA> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes: > >(I'm specifically asking how cc knows to looks at ../lib for the compiler >passes). > All the relevant path names are hard codes in the source codes. All that is has to be done to change the pathes (I think you mean /lib and not ../lib) is to edit the codes, recompile them, and put the executable into /bin (or whatever). Fai Lau SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland) UU: ..{rutgers,ames}!sunybcs!ugfailau BI: ugfailau@sunybcs INT: ugfailau@joey.cs.buffalo.EDU